Sustainability + Accounting Education: The Elephant in the Classroom

Autor/in	Gray, Rob
Titel	Sustainability + Accounting Education: The Elephant in the Classroom
Quelle	In: Accounting Education, 22 (2013) 4, S.308-332 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0963-9284
DOI	10.1080/09639284.2013.817795
Schlagwörter	Accounting; Higher Education; Sustainability; Undergraduate Study; Social Sciences; Social Responsibility; Business; Ethics; Case Studies; Corporations; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Nachhaltigkeit; Grundstudium; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Soziale Verantwortung; Business studies; Wirtschaft; Betriebswirtschaft; Ethik; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Unternehmen; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	Despite the growing importance of sustainability and the sustainable development agenda, and despite the growing presence of papers recognising the critical interaction between sustainability and accounting and finance (and, indeed, with all social science), there has been a relatively muted response apparent within the accounting education literature itself. This relative lack of literature may well be unexpected but what is not unexpected is the difficulty that accounting and finance teachers have in developing such demanding new ideas with accounting and finance students in the classroom. Without in any sense gainsaying the considerable impediments to innovation, this explicitly polemical essay seeks to address a more fundamental difficulty: that of the way in which sustainability is approached and represented in both the literature and the classroom itself. The contention is that, unless sustainability is "keeping you awake at night", you do not understand it. The paper seeks to support this contention and then offers an example of one undergraduate course that is explicitly designed to stop students sleeping peacefully. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01