Christian Galan

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]

Christian Galan
Born	1960 France
Occupation	Author; professor; Researcher
Nationality	French
Subject	Education in Japan; Japanese language
Website
univ-tlse2.academia.edu/ChristianGalan

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]

• 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

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, n^o Vol. 65, No. 2,‎ 2002, pp. 470–472
3. . 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.