​You are invited to attend the next quarterly TLA (teaching, learning and assessment) seminar offered by the Division for Learning and Teaching Enhancement. This will be the last seminar for 2023.

Speaker: Prof. Gretha Steenkamp (School of Accountancy, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences) (SU Teaching Fellow)

Topic: Embedding student graduate attributes in accounting education

Date: 19 October 2023

Time: 13:00-14:00

Venue: Room 3008, Faculty of Education (GG Cillié Building)

This is a face-to-face seminar which will also be streamed. To reserve a seat, please RSVP Roshnique Pharo: rdaniels@sun.ac.za or (021) 808 3717. To join the seminar online, please use the following link: Click here to join the meeting 

Summary of seminar

Accountants are expected to have well-developed non-technical skills (Tsiligiris & Bowyer, 2021). Non-technical skills, such as ethics, citizenship, critical thinking, communication and teamwork, can be viewed as graduate attributes and their development should be integrated into the core technical modules of an academic programme (Barrie, 2007; Miller & Willows, 2023; Terblanche & De Clercq, 2021). The seminar will focus on a case study at the School of Accountancy, where programme renewal was undertaken to embed the development of the CA2021 graduate attributes into the academic programme. Several innovations will be discussed, including a critical thinking block in first year, a workshop on relational and decision-making acumen, developing citizenship values through social innovation upskilling, employing blended active learning, and a student portfolio of evidence on the graduate attributes to facilitate reflection. The case study provides evidence on how graduate attributes can be embedded into the core technical modules of an academic programme, and could be useful for educators in other disciplines. 

Biography of speaker

Gretha is an associate professor and the deputy director: Social Impact and Transformation at the School of Accountancy. She is a SU Teaching Fellow and the project leader for the implementation of the CA2021 competency framework, issued by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA), at the School of Accountancy. Her research interests include accounting education and corporate governance.

References

• Simon C. Barrie (2007) A conceptual framework for the teaching and learning of generic graduate attributes. Studies in Higher Education, 32:4, 439-458, DOI: 10.1080/03075070701476100
• Taryn Miller & Gizelle Demarie Willows (2023) Preparing accounting students to be responsible leaders. Accounting Education. DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2023.2228291
• E.A.J. Terblanche & B. De Clercq (2021) A critical thinking competency framework for accounting students. Accounting Education, 30:4, 325-354, DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2021.1913614
• Vangelis Tsiligiris & Dorothea Bowyer (2021) Exploring the impact of 4IR on skills and personal qualities for future accountants: a proposed conceptual framework for university accounting education. Accounting Education, 30:6, 621-649, DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2021.1938616​
  

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