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Arguing for Teaching as a Practice: a Reply to Alasdair MacIntyre
Author(s) -
Dunne Joseph
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.00331
Subject(s) - denial , criticism , appeal , economic justice , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , pedagogy , psychology , psychoanalysis , law , political science
This essay takes issue with Alasdair MacIntyre's denial that teaching is a practice. It does so less by appeal to MacIntyre's concept of practice than by criticism of his conception of teaching. It argues that this conception, as reconstructed from adversions to teaching in a range of his writings, does less than justice to what good teachers accomplish; and that, if this inadequacy is rectified—as much else in his writings suggests that it ought to be—there are clearer grounds for acknowledging teaching as a practice.