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Review of Hugh Sockett, Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning: The Primacy of Dispositions

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McDonough, G.P. Review of Hugh Sockett, Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching and Learning: The Primacy of Dispositions . Stud Philos Educ 31, 505–512 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-012-9309-4

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