Opportunities for publication

ACCOUNTING EDUCATION: an international journal
(The official education journal of the IAAER)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Accounting Education:

an international journal invites submissions for a themed issue on sustainability in accounting education. The United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) seeks to integrate the principles, values and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning at universities. The integration of sustainability in accounting curricula has also been spurred on by the climate change debate. Accounting for sustainability is now part of professional accounting institutes’ examination syllabi. The challenge for accounting educators is to design and deliver programmes that reflect current thinking and practices in sustainability whilst educating students to critically examine ways of thinking and techniques that have contributed to society’s sustainability problems.

Submissions should be original work which investigates an aspect of sustainability in accounting education.  The guest editors are amenable to quality research in any paradigm including, for example, field or experimental investigations, archival or survey research, interpretive or critical studies and case study research.  Integrating sustainability in accounting education is a pressing global challenge, so we also encourage international studies.  The following list is indicative of topics of interest but is not intended to be exhaustive: 
 
 Embedding sustainability in the curriculum

  • Interface of institutional sustainability policies and sustainability in the  curriculum
  • Sustainability skills: stakeholders’ perceptions
  • Sustainable education of academics
  • Aligning sustainability skills with graduate employment needs
  • Engaging stakeholders in curriculum design to integrate sustainability in the curriculum
  • Assessing approaches and methods to teaching sustainability 

 
The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2011 with publication currently scheduled for 2012.  Early submissions are welcome, and potential contributors are encouraged to notify us of their interest. Submissions should be made electronically in accordance with AE’s policies and style and sent to both guest editors:

Guest Editors

  • Associate Professor Maria Cadiz Dyball        
    Department of Accounting and Finance
    Macquarie University
    Sydney NSW Australia 2109
    Email: maria.dyball@mq.edu.au
  • Ian Thomson
    Department of Accounting and Finance
    University of Strathclyde
    Glasgow, Scotland G4 0LN
    Email: i.h.thomson@strath.ac.uk