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Matthew Kruger-Ross, Ph.D. is a Professor at West Chester University, where he teaches graduate courses on educational technology, curriculum, and research methodologies. His guiding question — what is it to teach? — shapes a research program that sits at the intersection of philosophy of education and technology, curriculum theory, and the hermeneutic phenomenology of Martin Heidegger.

His current work investigates what the encounter with AI reveals about education itself — not treating AI as the subject but as an occasion that makes phenomenological questions about teaching visible and urgent. He co-directs PEXE Lab, co-hosts The Line podcast, and writes on Substack about the lived experience of being a philosophical educator in an age of technological disruption.

Sean Legnini is an EdD candidate at West Chester University and co-director of PEXE Lab. His guiding question — what is it to learn? — drives a dissertation titled "Learning as Dwelling," which investigates the lived experience of learners across settings that solicit different forms of embodied attunement. His work draws on Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Edward Casey, David Abram, and Max van Manen to argue that placed, embodied learning is not the acquisition of knowledge but the formation of being.

Before doctoral work, Sean spent nearly a decade as a middle school science teacher and over 15 years as a hockey coach, where the gap between what education claims to do and what it actually feels like became the ground of his research. He co-hosts The Line podcast and writes on phenomenology and education on Substack. He is a father of four, a hockey player and coach, and is committed to building phenomenological insight into public conversation — not locked behind journal paywalls but shared in the places where educators actually are.