The Phenomenology & Experiential Education Lab

PEXE Lab is a phenomenology and experiential education lab — a working space for two questions: what is it to teach, and what is it to learn? "Experiential" is a word worth reclaiming. It's been thinned to a shorthand for field trips and hands-on activities; we think experience itself deserves more careful attention than that, and recovering what it can mean is part of the work. That recovery is phenomenological work — slow, careful, grounded in lived experience — and we're doing it in public, through essays, a podcast, and ongoing research. Come think alongside us.

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Matthew Kruger-Ross

Professor, West Chester University

His guiding question — what is it to teach? — leads into the lived experience of being a philosophical educator, advising doctoral students, and navigating the encounter with AI in higher education. His work draws on Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology.

Sean Legnini

EdD Candidate, West Chester University

His guiding question — what is it to learn? — grounds a dissertation on learning as dwelling, drawing on Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Casey, and Abram to argue that placed, embodied learning is ontological transformation.