A Look Inside Action Research: Driving Reform in Accounting Education and Development of Accounting Educators

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Abstract

Accounting education literature already demonstrates that action research is a systematic and iterative method that some accounting educators have used to improve teaching practices (Paisey and Paisey 2003, 2005; Cunningham 2008; Doran et al. 2011), develop course assignments (Hand 1997; McGowan 2012) and implement curriculum change (Hazeleton and Haigh 2010). The potential to support broader accounting education reforms exists if accounting educators across a large variety of contexts also become action researchers. Action researchers learn to be action researchers by doing action research (Levin and Martin 2007; Grant 2007). This paper takes a look inside how action research is done to support accounting educator development as action researchers. The paper contributes to a small but promising body of accounting education literature by introducing first-person inquiry in action research.

Author

• Susan M Curtis, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign