Helena Radlinska (1879-1954) is one of the main figures of the educational reform in Poland during the first half of the 20th century. Founder of the “Social Pedagogy” she acted as professor of history and philosophy in the Popular University Adam Mickiewicz and later in the Free University of Poland. After the Great War, she worked in the rural communities to develop educational programs for adults and create institutions fostering the auto didactical instruction. As leader of the Centralny Związek Kółek Rolniczych (Central Union of Agricultural Circles), she maintains close contacts with the foreign pedagogical circles. She collaborates with several famous pedagogues such as Paul Odet, Adolphe Ferrière, Nicolas Roubakine. She did participate to many international congresses including those organized by the New Education Fellowship (NEF). In 1929, she became a member of the NEF International Committee and the official representative of Poland. She wrote several articles in the NEF journals and edited the polish pedagogical review Rocznik Pedagogiczny. Through the analysis of her correspondence with Mary Butts (general secretary of the International Bureau of Education) and other members of the NEF (notably Elisabeth Rotten and Adolphe Ferrière), we will show the role she played in the transition process regarding educational reform in her country and abroad. This research will focus on the international dimension of Radlinska’s work trying to identify the social networks she belonged to. The goal is to understand how did circulate the reformist educational knowledge through the national borders, especially between Western and Eastern Europe’s countries.

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