TITLE:
What Is the Training of the Accounting Professor in Brazil?
AUTHORS:
Adriana Maria Procópio de Araujo, Roseli Rodrigues de Mello
KEYWORDS:
Accounting Education, Professor Training, Higher Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.11,
June
24,
2014
ABSTRACT: The aim this research is to demonstrate the structure of the Higher
Education in Brazil with emphasis in Accounting Education and the college
Education of the professor in this field of knowledge. It reports the aspects
of college education of the accounting professor from the standpoint of Vasconcelos’ model (1994) dividing it into four fields of education: practical training, technical scientific, pedagogical and, social and political. The gathering of the
professors’ perceptions was carried out through an online questionnaire. The
base of the analysis was in 383 answers, being 307 of the observations
considered valid. The results were identified by using descriptive analysis.
The research indicates, in this sample, that the accounting sciences professor
in Brazil has predominantly a practical training formation lacking pedagogical
preparation, which is the highlighted object in this study.