Accounting at school: the impact of policy, teachers and class on the ethical construction of accounting and business in Scottish secondary schools

Ken McPhail, Catriona Paisey and Nick Paisey

International Journal of Critical Accounting, 2010, vol. 2, issue 3, 289-318

Abstract: Drawing on Bourdieu, this paper begins from the assumption that significant progress in developing the ethical proclivities of accountants and business people more generally requires greater understanding of, and engagement with, the way business and accounting is experienced by pupils within their primary and secondary education. The paper draws on interviews with teachers, student group observations and a large questionnaire survey, in order to critically explore three broad questions. Firstly, what broader policy agendas are impinging on the way business and accounting is being constructed within secondary schools in Scotland? Secondly, how do teachers of business and accounting view the broader social and ethical dimensions of their subject? And thirdly, what is the impact of both the broader policy agendas and teacher's perspectives on the way accounting and business are constructed and experienced by students from different socio-economic backgrounds? The paper concludes with a call for greater critical engagement in policy agendas in primary and secondary education.

Keywords: Bourdieu; high school; accounting education; business education; ethics; Scotland; secondary schools; teachers; policy agendas; socio-economic backgrounds; secondary education; primary education. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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