- Title
- Instilling a sustainability ethos in accounting education through the Transformative Learning pedagogy: a case-study
- Creator
- Saravanamuthu, Kala
- Relation
- Critical Perspectives on Accounting Vol. 32, p. 1-36
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2015.05.008
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- This paper draws on the extended theorisation of Mezirow's (2000) psycho-critical Transformative Learning pedagogy, a form of deep-learning, to examine how accounting education could (i) challenge the unproblematic perpetuation of economic rationalism in accounting's predominately technical curriculum, and (ii) sow the seeds of a sustainability ethos. This pedagogy initiates a disorienting dilemma by contrasting accounting's economic rationalism with sustainability's ecological resilience. It then enables learners to discover deeper layers of this tension in a student-centred participatory learning environment: learners harness their emotional intelligence to critically evaluate accounting's financial perspective, and expand their consciousness of the other. A case-study on the lived-experiences and perceptions of two consecutive cohorts of accounting students sheds light on how and why this pedagogy contributed to five (of ten) graduates interviewed reconsidering their existing moral consciousness and professional identities, four graduates reinforcing their prevailing sustainability perspectives, and one graduate, with language difficulties, maintaining accounting's financial perspective.
- Subject
- accounting education; critical; sustainability; transformative learning
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1331289
- Identifier
- uon:26590
- Identifier
- ISSN:1045-2354
- Language
- eng
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