This article presents the person of Helen Parkhurst - the author of the Dalton Plan. The events described here cover the period from her early childhood, which significantly influenced the final shape of Dalton Plan, to 1920, when it was implemented in Dalton School in the United States. In this article I present the process of creating this innovative plan of teaching that arose during the remarkable life of a dedicated and ambitious, yet extremely modest, reformer of world of education.
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"Biografistyka Pedagogiczna" received funding for the years 2022-2024 from the funds of the Minister of Education and Science under the programme „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”.
Project duration: 2023-2024.
The amount of co-financing is 65 992,00 PLN
Contract number: RCN/SP/0434/2021/1