Scholarship in university business schools – Cardinal Newman, creeping corporatism and farewell to the “disturber of the peace”?

Craig, Russell; Clarke, Frank; Amernic, Joel

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“…Senior university managers may perceive business schools as attempting to create a "university within a university" (Craig, Clarke, & Amernic, 1999). This perception can provoke a clash with university senior management that business school deans often lose.…”

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A Call for University-Based Business Schools to “Lower Their Walls:” Collaborating With Other Academic Departments in Pursuit of Social Value

Currie

Davies

Ferlie

2016

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A Call for University-Based Business Schools to “Lower Their Walls:” Collaborating With Other Academic Departments in Pursuit of Social Value

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Ferlie

2016

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“…This traditional vocational focus denies students wider educational opportunities that are afforded if education is related to the development of the whole person. In developing the new unit, the teaching team felt it was important to seek a balance between the humanistic, formative and vocational elements of education and to provide a space for active difference, debate, contestation and dissent (see Newman, 1996;Craig, Clarke & Amernic, 1999;. This emphasis is evident in an extract from the unit outline provided to students:…”

Section: What Sociology Offers the Study Of Accountingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Asian Social Science, Vol. 4, No. 3, March, 2008

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2009

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Learning and teaching is an important component of university life -critical for students and also for those who teach. Our aim is to make this practice more enjoyable and effective for all involved, and at the same time to encourage a scholarly approach to the process. This volume of Asian Social Science is devoted to the work of a team of academic staff who have collaborated in making real improvements to their teaching and the learning of their students. In this article we will discuss the process of setting up the group, the pedagogical rationale, and the training and support given to all members.Keywords: Professional development, Curriculum change, Case studies, Action research BackgroundThe Division of Economic and Financial Studies (EFS) is the largest Division at Macquarie University with around 4 000 postgraduate students, 9 000 undergraduate students and 300 full and part-time academic staff. The Division offers a mix of disciplines with five departments -Accounting and Finance, Actuarial Studies, Business, Economics, and Statistics. Students can focus on becoming specialist economists, accountants, actuaries, demographers or statisticians or combine other major studies to pursue interests such as organisational psychology, computing, environmental management, languages or other electives. The programs are accredited by the relevant professional bodies.Faculty members are eager to improve the experiences of their students and, in 2007, the Dean allocated extra funds to assist the development of the learning and teaching process. Several models were discussed and, ultimately, the Learning Excellence and Development (LEAD) team was set up by the Division's Director of Learning and Teaching Studies (Leigh Wood) and the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching (Peter Petocz), two positions with key responsibility for the learning and teaching process Division-wide.There are numerous external pressures for academics to demonstrate that their teaching is effective. The Australian Government has set up a Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (LTPF) that is linked to measures of teaching, such as student retention, progression rates through degrees, graduate employment and pay, and students' assessment of their learning at university. University funding is linked to performance on the LTPF. For individual staff members, salary bonuses may be linked to being able to demonstrate the quality of their teaching, so there are extrinsic as well as intrinsic incentives to improve. Of course, the main reason for investigating teaching is to improve the experiences of our students! For a non-Australian audience, let us explain how most teaching is carried out at Macquarie University (and generally in Australian universities). Students enrol in Bachelor degree programs straight from school and most degrees take three years (six semesters), four years for Engineering and six for medicine. Students generally enrol in four subjects per semester, eight per year, 24 for a degree, though there is some variation in the...

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“…This traditional vocational focus denies students wider educational opportunities that are afforded if education is related to the development of the whole person. In developing the new unit, the teaching team felt it was important to seek a balance between the humanistic, formative and vocational elements of education and to provide a space for active difference, debate, contestation and dissent (see Newman, 1996;Craig, Clarke & Amernic, 1999;Boyce, 2004). This emphasis is evident in an extract from the unit outline provided to students:…”

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Integrating Sociological Concepts into the Study of Accounting: Yielding the Benefits of Team Teaching

Boyce¹,

Greer²,

Blair³

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In response to recent criticisms of business and accounting education, a team of educators introduced a new course in social and critical perspectives on accounting. The course sought to integrate sociological concepts into the study of accounting, with key themes of social construction and social power forming a core of the course. The express intention was to raise student awareness of the nature and functions of accounting in contemporary society. The core teaching strategy involved team teaching, which was used to enhance learning and develop higher order generic skills. Feedback from two diverse cohorts of students vindicated the approach undertaken and reinforced the importance of linking teaching and research in accounting programs. Change in accounting education can be directed towards regaining and rebuilding social relevance for a discipline too often associated with a narrow economic imperative rather than the broader public interest.

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Scholarship in university business schools – Cardinal Newman, creeping corporatism and farewell to the “disturber of the peace”?

Cited by 52 publications

References 15 publications

A Call for University-Based Business Schools to “Lower Their Walls:” Collaborating With Other Academic Departments in Pursuit of Social Value

A Call for University-Based Business Schools to “Lower Their Walls:” Collaborating With Other Academic Departments in Pursuit of Social Value

Asian Social Science, Vol. 4, No. 3, March, 2008

Integrating Sociological Concepts into the Study of Accounting: Yielding the Benefits of Team Teaching

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