Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-30-2024
Description
This article seeks to help faculty learn ways for accounting professors to incorporate teaching critical thinking based on research by Stephen Brookfield, a well-published expert in the field of critical thinking education. The paper will focus on how Brookfield’s research on teaching critical thinking can change the traditional accounting classroom where students passively cover content to a classroom where students engage within the content so that they develop the critical thinking skills necessary to effectively work in the profession. The authors will present three teaching methods that professors can implement in their classrooms to begin to teach students critical thinking skills. The value of this piece is in simple changes accounting faculty can make in their classroom to help students shift from sitting passively in class to more enhanced learning with higher order thinking skills. These skills will better prepare students for the accounting profession.
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Citation Information
Bentley, Ashley B. and Freeman, Michelle S., "Teaching Accounting Students to Think Critically by Engaging Them in the Classroom" (2024). Faculty Open Access Works. 1.
https://dc.etsu.edu/faculty-open-works/1
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Copyright the author[s]. This article originally appeared in The Accounting Educator's Journal.