TITLE:
Academic Management Actions Facing Reforms in Curriculum and in Competencies Required to Graduating from an Accounting Sciences Course
AUTHORS:
Vilma Geni Slomski, Luciana Regina da Silva Souza, Anísio Candido Pereira, Antonio Carlos Ribeiro da Silva
KEYWORDS:
Graduation Coordination, Professional Competencies, Accounting Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.7 No.7,
May
19,
2016
ABSTRACT: This study aimed to
assess academic management actions facing the set of professional competencies
that graduates from an Accounting Sciences course need to graduate. To this
end, we carried out a qualitative descriptive study. Data were collected
through interviews and analyzed using content analysis. We found that the set
of graduates’ professional competencies concerning organizational, technical-professional
and social spheres requires academic management actions such as: 1) democratic
governance and collective development of a curricular pedagogical project; 2)
establishment of places for interaction between fields/disciplines (structuring teaching core); 3) use of
conflict management strategies; 4) activities that favor professional ethics; 5)
activities that favor leadership, commitment and trust; 6) curriculum
flexibility; 7) strategic planning and evaluation of actions; 8) professional
self-development. Activities and mechanisms that encourage the participation of
all those involved in decision-making characterize democratic management and
academic management’s leadership. We conclude that democratic-participative
management may favor professionals’ graduation processes in the contemporary
world, and may be a way of ensuring the development of students’ cognitive,
operational, social and moral competencies, through their commitment to
curriculum dynamics, to the development of thought and creation processes, to
the establishment of participatory citizenship and to ethical education.