Christian Galan Explained

Christian Galan
Birth Date:1960
Birth Place:France
Occupation:Author; professor; Researcher
Nationality:French
Subject:Education in Japan
Japanese language

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

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)

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [CEJ-EESJC] Christian Galan]. w3.cej-eesjc.univ-tlse2.fr. fr. 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. Web site: Axe 3 – La fabrique du contemporain. cej.fr. 11 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190910133933/http://www.cej.fr/index.php/fr/axes/axe-3-la-fabrique-du-contemporain-dynamiques-sociales-et-culturelles. 10 September 2019. dead.
  4. Web site: La famille japonaise moderne, 1868–1926 : discours et débats CEJ. Bibliothèques spécialisées de la Ville de Paris. 11 June 2019.
  5. Web site: Inspection générale de l'Éducation nationale. Ministère de l'Éducation nationale et de la Jeunesse. fr. 11 June 2019.
  6. L'enseignement de la lecture au niveau élémentaire dans le système éducatif du Japon moderne depuis Meiji (1872–1992). Paris, INALCO. 1 January 1997. thesis. Christian. Galan.
  7. Web site: Section de japonais – UTM – Christian Galan. japonais.univ-tlse2.fr. 11 June 2019.
  8. Web site: D'Est en Ouest: Révolutions conservatrices (4/4) : Climat, théorie du genre, darwinisme : la bataille des programmes scolaires. France Culture. fr. 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. fr. 138. 182–187. 10.4000/histoire-education.2680 . 0221-6280.
  10. Web site: Le japonais au Mirail. ladepeche.fr. fr. 11 June 2019.
  11. Web site: 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. 10.3406/ebisu.2008.1508.
  13. News: En Asie, les maths sont synonymes de réussite scolaire et sociale. La Croix. 28 February 2014. 11 June 2019. fr-FR. 0242-6056.
  14. Web site: Le Japon va-t-il vraiment supprimer les sciences humaines à l'université ?. 25 September 2015. Libération.fr. fr. 11 June 2019.
  15. Web site: Made in Japan. France Culture. 15 May 2013 . fr. 11 June 2019.
  16. Web site: Results for 'christian galan' [WorldCat.org]]. worldcat.org. 11 June 2019.

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