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]
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]
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]
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