Teaching and learning: Current and future challenges facing accounting academics, academics, and the development of an agenda for future research

Abstract

Purpose

Positioned within a framework of challenges facing universities, this paper aims to focus on challenges faced by teachers of accounting as a business discipline to ensure it remains relevant in a fast-moving and changing environment.

Design/methodology/approach

Drawing on a variety of sources, this paper explores a number of issues surrounding teaching and learning in the current university environment. The seven papers that make up the special issue are located within a framework which is used to illustrate how each one contributes to the field. This paper is primarily discursive in nature.

Findings

The theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches used in the papers that make up this special issue are described. In addition, the paper suggests that to remain relevant, teaching and learning will remain an important area for future research.

Practical implications

This paper on teaching and learning is of interest to accounting teachers and researchers, university managers and members of the accounting profession.

Originality/value

This special issue provides a range of examples of research relevant to teaching and learning and sets an agenda for future research.

Citation

Samkin, G. and Stainbank, L. (2016), "Teaching and learning: Current and future challenges facing accounting academics, academics, and the development of an agenda for future research", Meditari Accountancy Research, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 294-317. https://doi.org/10.1108/MEDAR-05-2016-0062