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

Accounting Education

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 371-387

  Buckmaster, Natalie ^a   Craig, Russell ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accounting Education Metaphor Television Engagement Consumer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242601123     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639280010025582     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Alie, R. E., Beam, H. H., and Carey, T. A., 1998. The use of teams in an undergraduate management programme. Journal of Management Education, 22 (6): 707–719.
2. Anthony, R. N., Reece, J. S., and Hertenstein, J. H., 1995. Accounting Text and Cases, Chicago: Irwin.
3. Bacon, D. R., Stewart, K. A., and Silver, W. S., 1999. Lessons from the best and worst student team experiences: how a teacher can make the difference. Journal of Management Education, 23 (5): 467–488.
4. Carson, K., 1999. Bankrupt in a marketplace of ideology. The Australian Higher Education Supplement, 10 November: 32
5. Cherry, M. L., and Miller, M., 1994. “ The Professor: What it is and what it can be ”. In Old Gold and Black of Wake Forest University 3 February cited by MacMillan and Cheney (1996) Communication Education45, January, 1–15
6. Christenson, C., 1983. The methodology of positive accounting. Accounting Review, 58 (1): 1–22.
7. Colbeck, C. L., Campbell, S. E., and Bjorklund, S. A., 2000. Grouping in the dark: what college students learn from group projects. The Journal of Higher Education, 71 (1): 60–83.
8. Craig, R., and Amernic, J. H., 1994. Roleplaying in a conflict resolution setting: description and some implications for accounting. Issues in Accounting Education, 9 (1): 28–44.
9. Craig, R. J., and Greinke, A. J., 1994. Accounting history and governmental enquiries: an experiment in adversarial roleplay. The Accounting Historians' Journal, 21 (2): 117–133.
10. Delbanco, A., 1999. The Decline and fall of literature. The Australian Higher Education Supplement, 17 November: 32–34.
11. Demski, J. S., 1988. Positive accounting theory: a review. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 13 (6): 623–629.
12. Featherstone, M., 1991. Consumer Culture and Postmodernism, London: Sage Publishers.
13. Franz, R. S., 1998. Whatever you do, don't treat your students like customers!. Journal of Management Education, 22 (1): 63–69.
14. Keddie, J., and Trotter, E., 1998. Promoting participation - breathing new life into the old technology of a traditional tutorial: a teaching note. Accounting Education: an international journal, 7 (2): 171–181.
15. Kuhn, T., 1970. The Stucture of Scientific Revolutions
16. McLuhan, M., 1996. The Medium is the Message, San Francisco: Jerome Angel.
17. McMillan, J. J., and Cheney, G., 1996. The student as consumer: the implications and limitations of a metaphor. Communication Education, 45 January: 1–15.
18. Omrani, B., Baily, G., and Gulick, C., 2000. Grey millennium dons breed Oxford blues. The Australian, 8 March: 38–39.
19. Postman, N., 1984. Amusing Ourselves to Death, New York: Penguin.
20. Riesman, D., 1980. On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
21. Solow, J., Passive vs active learning. Paper presented at the conference, ‘Learning and Iowa: Transcending tradeoffs between teaching and research’. Iowa City, Iowa. Cited by McMillan and Cheney
22. Sterling, R. R., 1990. Positive accounting: an assessment?. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 16 (5/6): 395–403.
23. Wallman, S. M., 1996. The future of accounting and financial reporting, part IV: ‘Access’ accounting. Accounting Horizons, 11 (2): 103–116.
24. Watts, R. L., and Zimmerman, J. L., 1990. Positive accounting theory: a ten year perspective. Accounting Review, 65 (1): 131–156.
25. Wells, M. C., 1976. A revolution in accounting thought?. Accounting Review, 57 (3): 471–482.
26. Whitley, R. D., 1980. The possibility and utility of positive accounting theory. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 13 (6): 631–645.
27. Whittington, G., 1987. Positive accounting theory: a review article. Accounting and Business Research, 17 (68): 327–336.
28. Williams, J., 1999. Symposium: English 1999. College English, 61 (6) July