Kazuo Kawada
Papers
7
Total Citations
52
H-Index
3
About
Kazuo Kawada is a Japanese researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotics, educational technology, and STEM pedagogy, with a particular focus on making programming and robotics accessible to young learners from kindergarten through junior high school. His most influential contribution, "Robotics Programming Learning for Elementary and Junior High School Students" (2017, 25 citations), directly engages with Japan's national education policy mandating programming instruction, offering practical frameworks for implementation in schools. Kawada is also the pioneering voice behind "Robo-iku" — a concept of robot-facilitated education — introduced through his 2013 work on rescue robot workshops (12 citations), which sought to combat young students' disengagement from science and technology. His rescue robot contest research demonstrates a creative, humanitarian-themed approach to experiential learning, challenging students to engineer solutions to real-world disaster scenarios. More recently, Kawada has turned toward assessment innovation, exploring image-based and data-driven methods to evaluate programming achievement quantitatively. Earlier work on CMAC-based path tracking for omnidirectional robots reveals a solid technical foundation underlying his educational mission. Collectively, his research has meaningfully shaped how Japan conceptualizes and delivers robotics education at the primary level.
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Top Papers
- 1Robotics Programming Learning for Elementary and Junior High School Students25 citations · 2017
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- 3A Practice of Rescue Robot Contest in Junior High Schools4 citations · 2010
- 4Study on Assist Education of Swing Riding Using a Robot3 citations · 2017
- 5Estimation of Programming Learning Achievement by Line Tracing Robot3 citations · 2019
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