YAMAMOTO Naoki

Teaching Staff (Liberal Arts Core)

Title Associate Professor
   
Research Fields Developmental Psychology, Ecological Psychology
   
Education
2013
Ph.D. in Education, The University of Tokyo (Course in Educational Psychology, Graduate School of Education)
2009
Ph.D. in Education, The University of Tokyo (Course in Educational Emergence, Graduate School of Education)
2004
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Musashino Art University
   
Selected Professional Experience
2026-Present
Associate Professor, Akita University of Art
2024-2026
Associate Professor, Hirosaki Gakuin University
2014-2019
Assistanct Professor, Rikkyo University
2006-2007
Academic Assistant, Musashino Art University
   
Recent Activities

<Authored Books >

2021
An Introduction to Psychology of Art and Design: Psychology Visits Art, Co-authored Book, Arakawa, A., Yamamoto, N., Unno, Y., Katsura, R., Muta, K., & Ishikawa, H. Shinyo-sha (ISBN: 9784788517226)

2016
Dynamics of the Individual: Origins and Developments in Motor Development Research. Naoki Yamamoto, Kaneko Shobo

<Publications >

2022
Arrangement of Tools and the Micro-development of Woodworkers: A Case Study of the Process of Creating Works with Japanese Woodturning, Naoki Yamamoto, Japanese Journal of Ecological Psychology, 14(1), 51-86 (Peer-reviewed)

2016
What Significance Does Basic Research on Motor Development Have for Developmental Support?, Practice and Research of Clinical Developmental Psychology, 11 (Invited)

2014
Fundamentals and Future Subjects in the Study of Motor Development in Light of the Work of Gesell, McGraw, and Thelen. Naoki Yamamoto, Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology, 25(2) (Peer-reviewed)

2013
The Microgenetic Process for Rolling-Over Movements in Male Adults in Developmental Relation to Rolling-Over Movements in Infancy, Naoki Yamamoto, Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24(3), 358-370 (Peer-reviewed)

2011
Longitudinal Observation of the Acquisition Process of Rolling-Over Movement in Infancy, Naoki Yamamoto, Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22(3), 261-273 (Peer-reviewed)
   
Courses Taught Educational Counseling
Student and Career Seminar.
Educational Psychology
Teaching as a Profession
Introduction to Teaching
Classroom observation 1,2
Student Teaching 1,2
Student Teaching
Guidance for Student teaching
Teaching practice Seminar (Junior/Senior High School\)
Basic Seminar

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Further details (in Japanese) can be found at the following link: YAMAMOTO Naoki (Japanese page)