Accounting students' approaches to group-work

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Title: Accounting students' approaches to group-work
Author(s): Tempone, Irene; Martin, Elaine
Abstract: Employers and universities emphasize the need for students to be able to work in groups and be good team members, yet there is often limited understanding of what this involves and how it might be developed. This paper examines how students studying an accounting for management subject made sense of working in a group. Six different approaches to group-work are found. They range from a view that group-work gets in the way of learning to a view that the group provides a collaborative mechanism which ensures knowledge grows and develops through interactive debate and stimulation. The paper considers the implications for teaching accounting through groupwork.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology
Source: Accounting Education, Vol. 8, no. 3 (Sep 1999), pp. 177-186
Publication year: 1999
FOR Code(s): 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; 1501 Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
Keyword(s): Accounting curriculum; Colleges; Group work; Learning; Phenomenography; Understanding; Universities
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0963-9284
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/096392899330874
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