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'''Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue''' (1903 – 1983)<ref name=loc/> was a [[Haitians| |
'''Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue''' (1903 – 1983)<ref name=loc/> was a [[Haitians|Haitian]] public official and educational reformer. He believed the cause of problems in Haiti stemmed from the nation's poor educational system.<ref name=verna>{{cite journal |last1=Verna |first1=Chantalle Francesca |title=Maurice Dartigue, Educational Reform, and Intellectual Cooperation with the United States as a Strategy for Haitian National Development, 1934-46 |journal=Journal of Haitian Studies |date=2007 |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=24–38 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41715355 |access-date=3 April 2023 |issn=1090-3488}}</ref> He continued his work with [[UNESCO]] in Africa until the end of his career. |
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==Early life== |
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Revision as of 02:09, 3 April 2023
Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue (1903 – 1983)[1] was a Haitian public official and educational reformer. He believed the cause of problems in Haiti stemmed from the nation's poor educational system.[2] He continued his work with UNESCO in Africa until the end of his career.
Early life
Dartigue was born in Les Cayes, Haiti in 1903.[3]
Dartigue attended the Petit Séminaire Collège Saint-Martial. In 1924, he earned a degree from Haiti's Faculty of Law. He was selected to attend the École Centrale d'Agriculture (Central School of Agriculture) after his graduation. In 1926, he traveled to the United States to began working towards a master's degree at Teachers College, Columbia University.[2]
Career
In 1926, Dartigue was hired as an assistant to the director of rural education. In 1928, he began working as a teacher in education and social studies. That year he became the director of an agricultural boarding school. He was brought back to the School of Agriculture to supervise their experimental farm plots in 1930. He returned to Columbia University in 1931, where he completed his master's degree.[2]
In 1934, the final year of the United States occupation of Haiti, Dartigue was named Director of Rural Education. He remained in the position from 1934 until 1941. In 1941, he became and Minister of Public Instruction, Labor, and Agriculture, a role he retained until 1945.[2] In this role, Dartigue served as vice president for the corporate entity Société haitiano-américaine de développement agricole. This was a joint venture between the United States of America and Haiti during World War II to expand wartime production of rubber in the Haitian countryside.[4]
As minister, Dartigue was partially successful in implementing reforms for primary and vocational schools, but failed to restructure secondary schools before the Haitian Revolution of 1946.[5]
Dartigue sought asylum in the United States after the revolution. He moved to New York to work with the United Nations until 1956. That year, he moved to Paris for a position with UNESCO.[3] He joined a UNESCO mission to the Congo from 1960 to 1961.[6] He was heavily involved in overseeing educational reform in Africa through the 1960s.[3]
Dartigue died in Paris in 1983.[3]
Legacy
The Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue Papers, consisting of records pertaining to the Société haitiano-américaine de développement agricole, are indexed by the Library of Congress.[1]
His son, John Dartigue, was an executive and vice president of publicity at Warner Brothers. He died in 2022.[7]
References
- ^ a b Mathisen, David (2012). "Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue Papers" (PDF). Washington D.C.: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ a b c d Verna, Chantalle Francesca (2007). "Maurice Dartigue, Educational Reform, and Intellectual Cooperation with the United States as a Strategy for Haitian National Development, 1934-46". Journal of Haitian Studies. 13 (2): 24–38. ISSN 1090-3488. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Maurice Dartigue". dartigue.com. Maurice and Esther Dartigue. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ Smith, Matthew J. (15 May 2009). Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-9415-6.
- ^ Cook, Mercer (1948). Education in Haiti. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ Mudimbe-Boyi, Elisabeth (15 October 2020). "Des traces littéraires haïtiennes au Congo". Continents manuscrits. Génétique des textes littéraires – Afrique, Caraïbe, diaspora (in French) (15). doi:10.4000/coma.6293. ISSN 2275-1742. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- ^ Zee, Michaela (22 November 2022). "John Dartigue, Former Film Executive at Warner Bros., Dies at 82". Variety. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
Further reading
- Dartigue, Esther (1994). An outstanding Haitian, Maurice Dartigue : the contribution of Maurice Dartigue in the field of education in Haiti, the United Nations, and UNESCO (1st ed.). New York: Vantage Press. p. 394. ISBN 0-533-10704-0. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
- Pierre-Jacques, Charles (2002). D'Haïti à l'Afrique, itinéraire de Maurice Dartigue, un éducateur visionnaire (in French). Éditions Images. ISBN 978-2-921757-33-1. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
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