Popular television formats, The student-as-consumer metaphor, acculturation and critical engagement in the teaching of accounting

Natalie Buckmaster and Russell Craig

Accounting Education, 2000, vol. 9, issue 4, 371-387

Abstract: This paper discusses six television programme formats which were self-selected by Australian university students to facilitate their group-based presentations of accounting subject matter to fellow students in seminar and tutorial classes. This paper is a reflection upon the experiences of these formats (news and current affairs, game shows, tabloid television, soap operas, children's programmes and situation comedies) using an evaluative framework comprising the student-as-consumer metaphor, notions of 'acculturation' and a model of 'critical engagement'. The television programme format appears to be beneficial in serving accounting students' psychological and emotional needs and in providing them with a shared cultural structure by which to address accounting issues. This shared structure facilitates students' critical and creative engagement with accounting.

Keywords: Accounting Education Metaphor Television Engagement Consumer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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