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This is a crowdfunding project on Manifund for writing a practical guide to Kieran Egan's educational theory for parents and homeschoolers. It has no direct relevance to AI safety research or alignment.
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A Manifund crowdfunding project by Brandon Hendrickson seeking $11,000 to write a practical handbook on Kieran Egan's educational theory for parents and homeschoolers. The book aims to bridge traditional and progressive education debates using cognitive science insights. It focuses on using storytelling, metaphor, and imagination to make subjects meaningful to children.
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- •Project seeks $11,000 to fund one month of writing time plus illustration and graphic design for a parent-focused education handbook.
- •Based on Kieran Egan's educational theory, which uses cognitive tools like stories, metaphors, riddles, and heroes to engage children's imagination.
- •Covers practical approaches to teaching history, philosophy, science, art, reading, and math to children.
- •Author won the 2023 ACX book review contest with a review of Egan's 'The Educated Mind' and has 15 years of experience with Egan education.
- •Geared primarily toward homeschoolers but designed to be useful for all parents interested in intellectually vibrant education.
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Kieran Egan's educational theory (which I limned out analytically in a review of his book The Educated Mind, which won the 2023 ACX contest) might be the biggest hope for impressively improving education in the developed world — but no one's written a practical guide for it.
I'd like to.
The book’ll be geared towards homeschoolers, but it’ll also invite non-homeschooling parents to pick and choose practices that appeal to them. It’ll start with a quick chapter that explains the current stalemate in education between the two warring armies of Traditionalism and Progressivism. Then it’ll move to a chapter that lays out what both sides are missing: the emerging understanding of what a human mind really IS (from disciplines like evolutionary psychology and anthropology and cognitive science). It’ll have a chapter that BRIEFLY encapsulates Egan’s notion, which’ll draw from what I wrote in the “Educated Mind” review.
The bulk of the book, though, will be practical. The remaining chapters will cover subjects like history, philosophy, science, art, reading, & math. Each will lay out easy-to-implement ways to use Egan’s cognitive tools (e.g. stories, metaphors, riddles, jokes, images, songs, heroes…) to help make these subjects MATTER to kids, grabbing their emotions and imagination to cultivate, well, rationality!
In short: a playbook for parents who want to raise intellectually vibrant adults that see that the world is meaningful and that education is an adventure… without, themselves, going stark raving mad.
With the money I’ll take a month off from teaching in the summer to do nothing but write write write. (And float draft chapters to readers. And work with my illustrator and graphic designer. And pick the brains of people who have been doing Egan education longer than I have about their ideas.)
Describe why you think you're qualified to work on this
I’ve been brow-deep in Egan education for fifteen years, and’ve worked in the homeschool community for slight
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