THE TEACHER AS AN EXPERT: ANALYSIS OF JENNIFER LACKEY'S NOTION OF TESTIMONY
This paper appraises Jennifer Lackey's Notion of Testimony as it applies to teachers being regarded as experts. Testimony has over the years proven to be a vital source of knowledge, this is because everything we have come to know as humans, about ourselves, the people around us, our world, we know through the testimony of others. Despite how vital testimony has proven to be, it has not enjoyed the same level of epistemic exposure as the other sources of knowledge. The objective of this paper therefore is to examine if teachers can be truly called experts according to Jennifer Lackey's notion of testimony? This paper employs the philosophical methods of analysis, criticism and prescription and it concludes that teachers are experts but should strive not to be experts as-authority but experts-as-advisors.
Keywords: analysis, expert, jennifer, lackeys, notion, teacher, testimony