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Vedide Baha Pars is one of our educationist writers who educated many students and had administrative duties in İzmir during periods of Atatürk and İnönü. She’s the daughter of an important educationist Hakkı Baha Pars who was a close friend of Atatürk and one of the founders of İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti. While she has been the principal of İzmir Girls’ High School, she was also elected as president of İzmir Halkevi (İzmir Community Center) and published this establishment’s periodical Fikirler between 1947-1950. In 1952 she became the first female principal in a higher educational institution when she was assigned to be the principal of Gazi Educational Institution. Although Vedide Baha is important for our history of education, there are almost no studies about her scientific articles focused on education. Topics she wrote about are child education, preparation of units in secondary schools, lesson plan, teaching a lesson, project method, success and failure, effective reading and methods for learning a foreign language, moral behavior development in children, adolescence, adults’ communication with children, community centers, Republic and Atatürk, democracy and arts. She discussed education thoroughly by considering social and psychological differences and national values, in a wide range of subjects such as literature, philosophy, arts and physical sciences without being limited in a certain field.