Dr. Takako Takano serves as Professor of the Center for International Education, Waseda University and Chairperson of ECOPLUS, a registered NPO in Japan.  She earned her Ph.D. degree (School of Education) at the University of Edinburgh, and her master degrees at the University of Cambridge (M. Phil., Environment and Development) and Waseda University (Politics).  Her major interests include education in the field, the environment and sustainability and social anthropology.  Based on the theme of “humans, nature and different cultures,” she has conducted the planning and operating environmental and field educational projects on a global scale since the beginning of the 1990s.  She focuses on learning from experiences and advocates “place-based education” as well as creating a space for learning.  In 2002, she was selected as a prize winner of the Omega Award along with Sadako Ogata and Sayuri Yoshinaga.  She appeared in an environmental documentary film, “The Gaia Symphony.”

Her major books include: “Yagai de kawaru kodomo-tachi (in Japanese, Children Changing in the Fields)(Joho Center Publishing)”, “Chikyu no egao ni miserarete (in Japanese, Fascinated by Smiles on Earth)(Kaizosha),” “Ba no kyoiku: Tochi ni nezasu manabi no suimyaku (in Japanese, Place-based Education, Learning Rooted in Lands)(co-authorship, Rural Culture Association Japan),” and “PBE Chiiki ni nezashita kyoiku (in Japanese, Place-based Education, PBE) (authorship and edition, Kaizosha).”

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