Marie-Thérèse Maurette

Marie-Thérèse Maurette (September 28, 1890 – June 25, 1989) was a French educator who for twenty years (1929–1949) was the director of the International School of Geneva (Ecole Internationale de Genève, often referred to as Ecolint), the world's oldest international school. She was the author of an original pedagogy of peace inspired by the international institutions present in Geneva: the League of Nations and International Labour Organization. Her pedagogy is the basis for the International Baccalaureate.

Biography

Born Marie-Thérèse Charlotte Dupuy September 28, 1890, at 45 Rue d'Ulm in Paris, she was the daughter of Paul Dupuy (1856–1948), master supervisor, supervisor and secretary general from 1885 to 1925 of the École Normale Supérieure and Louise Marthe Lecoeur. Raised in the premises of the school of the rue d'Ulm, she met her husband; Fernand Maurette became a geographer and economist. They married on March 30, 1911, in Paris and in 1915 they had a son, filmmaker Marc Maurette.

She moved to Geneva soon after her marriage with her husband, who in 1924 joined the International Labour Organization (ILO) at the request of his former prep school colleague Albert Thomas.

In Geneva, she worked as an educator at the International School of Geneva, founded by local educators and officials of the League of Nations and the ILO.

She led the school as its Director from 1929 until 1949 and influenced its teaching advocating education for peace, based on respect and openness to others and with a strong international orientation. In 1948 she published the main lines of her teaching following a request of the UNESCO in a booklet entitled "Do Education Techniques for Peace Exist?"

The former Director General of the International School of Geneva and of the International Baccalaureate, Professor George Walker, dedicated a biography to her.

She died June 25, 1989, in Paris at the age of 98.

Pedagogy The pedagogy advocated by Marie-Thérèse Maurette is based on several elements: