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Accounting Ethics Education: Integrating Reflective Learning And Virtuse Ethics, Steven Mintz
Accounting Ethics Education: Integrating Reflective Learning And Virtuse Ethics, Steven Mintz
Steven Mintz
This paper explains the use of reflective learning techniques to create and deliver a new ethics course. Students apply virtue-based reasoning with reflective thinking to resolve conflicts faced by accounting professionals. Teaching techniques include class discussion, minute papers, reflection journals, role playing, and case analysis. Reflective learning helps to transform existing ideas and understandings to come to a new understanding of a situation. As a tool for ethics education in accounting, reflective learning provides the link that may enhance ethical understanding and enable students to apply virtue and reflective thinking to a variety of situations discussed in accounting courses.
Virtue Ethics And Accounting Education, Steven Mintz
Virtue Ethics And Accounting Education, Steven Mintz
Steven Mintz
The meaning and purpose of virtue theory are described, emphasizing the work of Pincoffs (1986), how it relates to accounting practice, and pedagogical considerations in teaching virtue to accounting students. There is a need for virtue in accounting because the virtues enable accountants to resist client and commercial pressures that may result from conflicts between an accountants' obligation to a client or employer and public interest considerations. Educators can use case analysis, cooperative and collaborative learning techniques, and role-playing, to inform students about the importance of virtue and to facilitate the learning of virtue.