Curriculum Vitae in English

Profile:
Dr. Kiichiro Okubo is a lecturer at the Center for Advanced Education and Career Development at the Regional Institution for Educational Creation, Kyoto University of Education.

Education:

  • Graduated from Shimane Prefectural Matsue Kita High School in 2001.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education, specializing in Japanese language, from Tokyo Gakugei University, Department of Education, Elementary Education Teacher Training Course, under the supervision of Professor Masayoshi Nemoto, in 2005.
  • Master’s degree in Japanese Education, specializing in Japanese language education, from Tokyo Gakugei University Graduate School of Education, Japanese Education Japanese Language Education Course, under the supervision of Professor Masayoshi Nemoto, in 2007.
  • Completed the Doctoral Program in Media Information Studies, specializing in Media Cultural Studies, in the field of Information Literacy Education Program and Media Education Theory Seminar, at the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, under the supervision of Professor Tatsuya Hotta, in 2020.

Work Experience:

  • Elementary school teacher at Tokyo Metropolitan Kodaira 5th Elementary School from 2007 to March 2012.
  • Elementary school teacher at Shimane Prefecture Etsumi City Tsumiya Elementary School from 2012 to March 2019.
  • Elementary school teacher at Shimane Prefecture Unnan City Kiji Elementary School from 2019 to March 2022.
  • Presented a lesson at the 45th Annual Conference of the Japan Society for Educational Technology in 2019: “Dream Discovery Project” during the Integrated Learning Time.
  • Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, Shimane University, until March 2023.
  • Currently a lecturer at the Center for Advanced Education and Career Development, Regional Institution for Educational Creation, Kyoto University of Education, since 2023.

Thesis:

  1. Okubo, Kiichiro (2020). “A Study on the Reading Reality and Comprehension Process of Manga in Upper Elementary School Students.” Doctoral Dissertation, Doctor of Informatics.
  2. Okubo, Kiichiro (2007). “Research on Osamu Tezuka’s Works: Charm and Argumentation in Four Works Focusing on ‘Black Jack’.” Master’s Thesis, Master of Education.

Award:

1. Japan Reading Association, Reading Science Research Encouragement Award, “The Influence of Working Memory Capacity on Manga Comprehension – A Study on Sixth-grade Elementary School Students,” February 2020. 

2. Information Communication Society, 9th National Conference, Excellent Presentation Award, “Development of a Program for Enhancing Basic Skills for Working Adults Using LEGO Blocks and Tablet Devices in Elementary Schools,” September 2012.

Refereed Academic Papers:

English:

  1. Kiichiro OKUBO, Kazunori SATO, Tomohiro YAMAMOTO, Shota ITAGAKI, Satoshi NAKAGAWA, Tatsuya HORITA (2022). “Practice and Effects of Programming Education using Drones in the Agriculture Unit of the Fifth Grade of Elementary School Social Studies.” Information and Technology in Education and Learning, Sep. 2022.
  2. Kiichiro OKUBO, Kazunori SATO, Yuichi WADA, Kazuyuki ASAI, Shunichi KUBO, Tatsuya HORITA (2019). “Study of Manga Reading as an Effective Teaching Method Based on the Text Comprehension Process.” International Journal of Learning Technologies and Learning Environments, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 54-66, Nov. 2019.

Japanese:

  1. Okubo, Kiichiro, Sato, Kazunori, Itagaki, Shota, Mitsui, Kazuki, Taizan, Yu, and Horita, Tatsuya (2023). “The Influence of Learning Sequence for Understanding and Experiencing Cloud on the Consciousness of Third-grade Elementary School Students’ Intention to Actively Utilize Cloud.” Educational Media Research, Vol. 29(2): 57-69, Japan Society for Educational Technology, November 2022.
  2. Okubo, Kiichiro, Sato, Kazunori, Yamamoto, Tomohiro, Itagaki, Shota, Nakagawa, Satoshi, and　Horita, Tatsuya (2022). “Development, Practice, and Evaluation of Learning Materials for Understanding AI Image Recognition Targeting Sixth-grade Elementary School Students.” Computers & Education, Vol. 53: 64-69, Japan Society for Information and Systems in Education, October 2022.
  3. Onda, Mai, Okubo, Kiichiro, Itagaki, Shota, Taizan, Yu, Mitsui, Kazuki, Sato, Kazunori, and Horita, Tatsuya (2022). “Development and Evaluation of Animation Teaching Materials for Connecting Daily Life and Society: Through the Practice of ‘How Things Heat Up’ in Fourth-grade Elementary School Science.” Journal of the Japan Society for Educational Technology, Vol. 46, Suppl.: Accepted, Japan Society for Educational Technology, September 2022.
  4. Inaki, Kentaro, Taizan, Yu, Mitsui, Kazuki, Okubo, Kiichiro, Sato, Kazunori, and Horita, Tatsuya (2022). “The Relationship between Experience of Self-selected Learning Methods in Class and Metacognitive Awareness of Learning Methods: Investigation of High and Low Academic Achievement.” Journal of the Japan Society for Educational Technology, Vol. 46, Suppl.: Accepted, Japan Society for Educational Technology, June 2022.
  5. Mitsui, Kazuki, Itagaki, Shota, Taizan, Yu, Okubo, Kiichiro, Sato, Kazunori, and Horita, Tatsuya (2022). “Survey of Knowledge about Cloud Computing for Elementary and University Students.” Computers & Education, Vol. 52: 36-41.
  6. Okubo, Kiichiro, Sato, Kazunori, Yamamoto, Tomohiro, Itagaki, Shota, Nakagawa,Satoshi, and Horita, Tatsuya (2021). “Practices and Effects of Programming Education Using Drones in Elementary School Social Studies on Agriculture.” Journal of the Japan Society for Educational Technology, Vol. 46, No. 1: 157-169, Japan Society for Educational Technology, September 2021.
  7. Okubo, Kiichiro, Wada, Yuichi, Kubo, Shunichi, and Horita, Tatsuya (2020). “Survey Research on the Reality, Consciousness, and Attitude of Manga Reading in Upper Elementary School Students.” Educational Media Research, Vol. 27, No. 1: 13-29, Japan Society for Educational Media Studies, October 2020.
  8. Yamamoto, Tomohiro, Mitsui, Kazuki, Kimura, Akinori, Okubo, Kiichiro, and Horita, Tatsuya (2020). “Structural Analysis of Individual Attitudes toward Promoting Programming Education in Elementary Schools.” Journal of the Japan Society for Educational Technology, Vol. 44, No. 1: 145-154, Japan Society for Educational Technology, April 2020.
  9. Okubo, Kiichiro, Wada, Yuichi, Kubo, Shunichi, and Horita, Tatsuya (2020). “The Influence of Working Memory Capacity on Understanding Manga: A Study on Sixth-grade Elementary School Students.” Journal of Reading Science, Vol. 61, No. 3/4: 128-142, Japan Reading Association, February 2020. (Awarded the Reading Science Research Encouragement Award)
  10. Okubo, Kiichiro, Wada, Yuichi, Kubo, Shunichi, and Horita, Tatsuya (2018). “Relationship between Manga Comprehension and Text Comprehension: A Study on Sixth-grade Elementary School Students.” Educational Media Research, Vol. 25, No. 1: 19-35, Japan Society for Educational Media Studies, June 2018.
  11. Okubo, Kiichiro, Sato, Kazunori, Nakahashi, Yu, Asai, Kazuyuki, and Horita, Tatsuya (2016). “Development and Evaluation of a Learning Program to Foster Media Literacy Using Manga.” Educational Media Research, Vol. 23, No. 1: 33-46, Japan Society for Educational Media Studies, September 2016.