{"id":1408,"date":"2018-07-16T13:13:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T20:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2018-07-16T13:39:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T20:39:52","slug":"johnson-marietta-louise-pierce-1864-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"JOHNSON, MARIETTA LOUISE PIERCE, 1864-1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher; pioneer of the progressive education movement. Born&#8211;October 8,\u00a01864, St. Paul, Minn. Parents&#8211; Clarence D. and Rhoda Matilda (Morton) Pierce. Married&#8211; John Franklin Johnson, June 6, 1897. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; State Normal School, St. Cloud, Minn., graduated 1885. Critic and model teacher, St. Paul Teachers&#8217; Training School, 1890-1892; critic teacher and department supervisor, Moorhead State Teachers College, 1892-1895; department supervisor, State Teachers College, Mankato, 1896-1899. Moved to Alabama, 1902,\u00a0and founded the School of Organic Education, Fairhope, 1907; director until 1938; director, Edgewood School, Greenwich, Conn. and conducted summer schools there and in Fairhope, Ala. Based her pedagogy on a concept of &#8220;organic education,&#8221;\u00a0influenced by the theories of Nathaniel Oppenheim, John Dewey, and Frederich Froebel. Founder and honorary vice-president, Progressive Education Association. Died December 23, 1938.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biographical Dictionary of American Authors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Child, the Parent, and the Teacher.\u00a0 New York: John Day, 1929.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching without Failure.\u00a0 Fairhope, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty Years With an Idea. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher; pioneer of the progressive education movement. Born&#8211;October 8,\u00a01864, St. Paul, Minn. Parents&#8211; Clarence D. and Rhoda Matilda (Morton) Pierce. Married&#8211; John Franklin Johnson, June 6, 1897. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; State Normal School, St. Cloud, Minn., graduated 1885. Critic and model teacher, St. Paul Teachers&#8217; Training School, 1890-1892; critic teacher and department supervisor, Moorhead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8401,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/8401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}