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Christian Galan
Born1960
France
OccupationAuthor; professor; Researcher
NationalityFrench
SubjectEducation in Japan; Japanese language
Website
univ-tlse2.academia.edu/ChristianGalan

Christian Galan (born in 1960) is a French Japanologist and professor of Japanese language and civilization at Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès University (formerly Toulouse-le Mirail) and a researcher at the Japanese Studies Center (CEJ) of the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco, Paris).[1] He has devoted most of his work to the study of the Japanese education system.[2]

Within the CEJ, he directs the research group "Education, Childhood and Society in Contemporary Japan"[3] and co-directs with Emmanuel Lozerand the research group "Speech and debates of the Meiji era".[4] He is also director of the Toulouse branch of the CEJ, co-director with Emmanuel Lozerand of the "Japan" Collection at Belles-Lettres Editions and, since 2010, is in charge of a general inspection mission for teaching Japanese in France for the Ministry of National Education.[5]

Biography

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A graduate of the Ecole Normale in Toulouse (1982), Christian Galan has a doctoral dissertation in Japanese Studies at Inalco (1997)[6] and holds the Habilitation to supervise research (2006). His current teaching at the University of Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès focuses on language as well as Japanese history and society.[7]

His fields of research mainly concern the study of the Japanese educational system in its various dimensions, historical and educational in particular. His career as a researcher has been organized around six major axes to which his various publications are attached: the teaching of reading in Japan: history, politics and pedagogy;[8] the Japanese writing system and the question of illiteracy;[9] teaching Japanese in France and in Europe:[10] policy and research on pedagogy;[11] the history of the Japanese education system: a shift from Edo era education to education in the Meiji era, a chronology of the history of education, and a study of some pivotal times,[12] transfers of knowledge to do in education between Japan and China,[13] etc. ; current reforms of the Japanese education system, including universities;[14] the history of childhood and young people in Japan.[15]

Main publications (books and book directions)

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In a statistical overview of Christian Galan's writings, WorldCat lists about 22 works in 57 publications in 3 languages in more than 580 library collections[16]

  • Christian Galan, L’Enseignement de la lecture au Japon – Politique et Éducation, Toulouse, PUM, 2001 (in French)
  • Christian Galan and Christine Nguyen Tri (dir. by), " Aspects de la modernité à l’aube du XXème siècle : l’éducation en Chine et au Japon ", Daruma – Revue internationale d’études japonaises, n° 12/13, automne 2002/printemps 2003] (in French)
  • Christian Galan, Introduction à l’écriture japonaise, CD-Rom didacticiel (présentation de l’écrit japonais et exercices d’apprentissage des kana), Toulouse, Université du Mirail, 2003 (in French)
  • Christian Galan and Jacques Fijalkow (dir. by), Langue, lecture et école au Japon, Arles, Philippe Picquier, 2006 (in French)
  • Christian Galan, J’apprends le japonais, illustrations de Florence Lérot-Calvo, Arles, Philippe Picquier, 2007 (in French)
  • Christian Galan and Arnaud Brotons (dir. by), Japon pluriel 7, Philippe Picquier, 2008 (in French)
  • Anne Gonon and Christian Galan (dir. by), Le Monde comme horizon – État des sciences humaines et sociales au Japon, Arles, Philippe Picquier, 2009 (in French)
  • Patrick Heinrich and Christian Galan (dir. by), Language Life in Japan : Transformations and Prospects, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010.
  • Christian Galan, I’m Learning Japanese, illustrations by Florence Lérot-Calvo, New York, Tuttle Publishing, 2010.
  • Christian Galan and Emmanuel Lozerand (dir. by), La Famille japonaise moderne (1868–1926) – Discours et débats, Arles, Philippe Picquier, 2011 (in French)
  • Christian Galan and Claude Lévi Alvarès (dir. by), Dossiers des Sciences de l’Education, n° 27, " Séisme éducatif au Japon ", mars 2012 (in French)
  • Christian Galan and Jean-Pierre Giraud (dir. by), Individu-s et démocratie au Japon, Toulouse, PUM, " Tempus Histoire ", 2015(in French)
  • Christian Galan and Rémi Scoccimarro (dir. by), " Trois ans avec Fukushima ", Cahiers d’histoire immédiate, n° 47, mai 2015 (in French)
  • Christian Galan and Jean-Marc Olivier (dir. by), Histoire du Japon & Histoire au Japon, Toulouse, Privat, 2016 (in French)
  • Fukuzawa Yukichi, L’Appel à l’étude, édition complète, traduit du japonais, annoté et présenté par Christian Galan, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, avril 2018, 220 p. (in French)
  • Christian Galan and Patrick Heinrich (dir. by), Being Young in Super-Aging Japan: Formative Events and Cultural Reactions, Routledge, 2018

References

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  1. ^ "[CEJ-EESJC] Christian Galan". w3.cej-eesjc.univ-tlse2.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  2. ^ P. F. Kornicki, " Reviewed Work: L'enseignement de la lecture au Japon. Politique et éducation by Christian Galan », Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, no Vol. 65, No. 2,‎ 2002, pp. 470–472
  3. ^ "Axe 3 – La fabrique du contemporain". cej.fr. Archived from the original on 10 September 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  4. ^ "La famille japonaise moderne, 1868–1926 : discours et débats CEJ". Bibliothèques spécialisées de la Ville de Paris. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Inspection générale de l'Éducation nationale". Ministère de l'Éducation nationale et de la Jeunesse (in French). Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  6. ^ Galan, Christian (1 January 1997). L'enseignement de la lecture au niveau élémentaire dans le système éducatif du Japon moderne depuis Meiji (1872–1992) (thesis thesis). Paris, INALCO.
  7. ^ "Section de japonais – UTM – Christian Galan". japonais.univ-tlse2.fr. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  8. ^ "D'Est en Ouest: Révolutions conservatrices (4/4) : Climat, théorie du genre, darwinisme : la bataille des programmes scolaires". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  9. ^ Chartier, Anne-Marie (15 December 2013). "GALAN (Christian). L'enseignement de la lecture au Japon. Politique et éducation / GALAN (Christian), FIJALKOW (Jacques), (dir.). Langue, lecture et école au Japon. Toulouse : Presses universitaires du Mirail, 2001, 365 p. / Arles : Éd. Philippe Picquier, 2006, 405 p." Histoire de l'Éducation (in French) (138): 182–187. doi:10.4000/histoire-education.2680. ISSN 0221-6280.
  10. ^ "Le japonais au Mirail". ladepeche.fr (in French). Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  11. ^ "Les ravages de la modernisation universitaire, Christophe Charle et Charles Soulié (Dir.)". 31 December 2007.
  12. ^ Humbert, Marc (2008). "Christian Galan, Jacques Fijalkow (dir.). Langue, lecture et école au Japon". Ebisu – Études Japonaises. 39 (1): 205–206. doi:10.3406/ebisu.2008.1508.
  13. ^ "En Asie, les maths sont synonymes de réussite scolaire et sociale". La Croix (in French). 28 February 2014. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  14. ^ "Le Japon va-t-il vraiment supprimer les sciences humaines à l'université ?". Libération.fr (in French). 25 September 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  15. ^ "Made in Japan". France Culture (in French). 15 May 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  16. ^ "Results for 'christian galan' [WorldCat.org]". worldcat.org. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
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