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Sean Legnini
@seanisdwelling.bsky.social
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Cool dad (x4). Married guy. Hockey coach. Studying and writing a phenomenology of the classroom, thinking about dwelling in education.

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Good read! Appreciate the quote in the screenshot. It reminds me of this page from Kieran Egan's "The Future of Education." When we reduce knowledge down to quantified facts we miss the deeply human part of learning that only exists when we learn in relation to the world.
Screenshot from an article on Defector with a quote that says "When you believe that learning is only as useful as the facts you have collected and categorized, and that empirical truth can be coded and served back through a sycophantic chat interface, you have already surrendered the best part of learning. Photo of a page of a book, highlighted. The highlighted sections say "The really bad news is that there isn't any knowledge stored in literacy, in all our libraries and databases. What we can store are symbols that are a cue to knowledge. People can read the symbols and not understand the knowledge, or partially understand it, or have only a vague sense of what it means... The problem here is that knowledge exists only in living human tissue, and the literacy codes we use for storage are cues that need to go through complex transformation before they can be brought to life again in another mind... They assume that if the students internalize the codes they will have the knowledge... What it produces is not knowledgeable people but, as Michele de Montaigne put it, asses loaded with books.
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The basics: we're attempting to recover the word "experience." Experiential education is more than field trips, projects, and "hands on learning." All education is already experiential, an ontological ground of students forming relationships with themselves and the world around them.
October 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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@schooldaves.bsky.social brought me right back to 701! (This is from Prolegomena to Any Future Phenomenological Ecology by Llewelyn)… hope you’re doing well at Seton Hall!
August 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Went around with a lobsterman today and enjoyed how he talks about his craft. He sees it less like hunting or fishing and more like husbandry. I asked if the lobsters just treat the bait and traps as habitat at this point and he said he calls the traps “barn stalls” and the water “the farm.”
August 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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My scholarship in #phenomenology so far has created a pretty strong relationship between Maurice Merleau-Ponty and I. That’s my guy. But reading Abram’s Spell of the Sensuous and now Deloria Jr & Wildcat’s Power and Place, the connection between phenomenology and indigenous metaphysics is so strong…
Book cover for Power and Place: Indian Education in America by Vine Deloria Jr and Daniel Wildcat.
August 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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2,789 games over the last 133 years at Goodison Park, incredible history. Glad I got to go to a game before Everton move to their new home. Goodbye Goodison! #UTFT #GoodisonPark
May 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The @nymag.com article is getting a ton of worthy attention today but this is the piece that stands out the most to me.

nymag.com/intelligence...
Screenshot of a NY Magazine article that says: The ideal of college as a place of intellectual growth, where students engage with deep, profound ideas, was gone long before ChatGPT. The combination of high costs and a winner-takes-all economy had already made it feel transactional, a means to an end. (In a recent survey, Deloitte found that just over half of college graduates believe their education was worth the tens of thousands of dollars it costs a year, compared with 76 percent of trade-school graduates.) In a way, the speed and ease with which AI proved itself able to do college-level work simply exposed the rot at the core. “How can we expect them to grasp what education means when we, as educators, haven’t begun to undo the years of cognitive and spiritual damage inflicted by a society that treats schooling as a means to a high-paying job, maybe some social status, but nothing more?” Jollimore wrote in a recent essay. “Or, worse, to see it as bearing no value at all, as if it were a kind of confidence trick, an elaborate sham?”
May 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The most patriotic I’ll be anytime soon.
Me in my USA Hockey sweatshirt
February 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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When you’re doing your first big lit review on the various definitions of science literacy from different scholars and stakeholders and come across this 😳😳
November 21, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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An excellent reminder from the introduction to Science for All Americans (1990) on the value of a strong science education, given our current landscape. This is not a push for disciplinary literacy, this is a push for science literacy as a means of citizenship and mindset.
From 1990's Science for All Americans. "Scientific habits of mind can help people in every walk of life to deal sensibly with problems that often involve evidence, quantitative considerations, logical arguments, and uncertainty; without the ability to think critically and independently, citizens are easy prey to dogmatist, flimflam artists, and purveyors of simple solutions to complex problems."
November 18, 2024 at 2:14 PM