SOTTILE, Marco

In the field of Educational Anthropology, my interest is the issue of the "relationship between nation, school, and cultural diversity". I focus specially on "multicultural symbiosis" in Japanese public elementary schools. Based on field research and participant observation, this study focuses on group dynamics and individual identity strategies in classrooms in which half of the children are of South American origin, and examines the cultural identity of foreign children at the actual inter-child relationships and at the individual level.

To examine "the relationship between nation, school, and cultural diversity," I turned my attention to colonial education in Japan, France, and other countries, taking suggestions from Japanese, Western, and other studies on colonial education, and moving on to historical research on colonial education in France, with a particular focus on colonial education in French Algeria. This research touches on the relationship between the creation of the "enseignement indigène" and Saint-Simonism, the specifics of education for Muslim girls, and the issue of French elementary school Muslim teacher discoursing on Muslim women during both interwar periods. For future research, using archives in France and Algeria, and based on the analysis of historical documents kept there, I will conduct research on education targeting Muslim children in the context of French colonial rule from the perspective of gender theory, from various angles such as the educational system, teaching methods, and the social and economic impact of educational policies.

With regard to my research on French language teaching, my main topic of interest is the incorporation of French film subtitling (from French to Japanese) into the pedagogical practice of French language teaching. In particular, my research focuses on immigrant and refugee cinema and French-speaking countries cinema.