Taking the Pulse of Accounting Education Reform: Liberal Education, Sociological Perspectives, and Exploring Ways Forward

Autor/inn/en	Boyce, Gordon; Narayanan, Venkateshwaran; Greer, Susan; Blair, Bill
Titel	Taking the Pulse of Accounting Education Reform: Liberal Education, Sociological Perspectives, and Exploring Ways Forward
Quelle	In: Accounting Education, 28 (2019) 3, S.274-303 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0963-9284
DOI	10.1080/09639284.2019.1586552
Schlagwörter	Accounting; Business Administration Education; Educational Change; Relevance (Education); College Curriculum; Foreign Countries; Sociology; Ethics; Environment; Sustainability; Australia; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Bildungsreform; Relevance; Relevanz; Ausland; Soziologie; Ethik; Umwelt; Nachhaltigkeit; Australien; Neuseeland
Abstract	This paper examines the 'state of play' with regard to accounting education reform, which has been advocated for decades but is notable for having failed to produce significant change. We build on prior calls to 'liberalise' accounting education, recommending a move to a more relevant curriculum that considers accounting in its social context. Based on an analysis of the accounting curriculum in 31 Australian and 8 New Zealand universities, we find that, despite widespread and continuing calls for a broader educational approach, there are very few examples of systemic curricular-wide change to the traditional technical and vocational focus of accounting education. As a way forward, a sociologically-informed accounting curriculum is proposed to overcome the widely-recognised limitations of current approaches and the apparent failure of efforts to liberalise the curriculum. We argue that our approach would facilitate the broadening of the curriculum, and the development of better-educated, well-rounded, and socially-aware graduates. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01