The article is designed to raise issues around how we view teaching and some of the implication that has for thinking about teaching as a discipline. The article is organized in such a way as to invite critique using the idea of teaching as disciplined enquiry. This enquiry involves multiple domains: subject epistemology and ontology; pedagogic strategies and didactic tactics; and psychosocial specifics of situations involving human beings, who can be agentive in exercising their will as to what they attend to, and how. Thus, teaching is fundamentally enquiry in the domain of human attention and awareness.