Miley, F. M., & Read, A. F. (2018). Farewell my lovely: Can we resurrect accounting education research? Paper presented at the British Accounting and Finance Association Accounting Education Special Interest Group Conference, Brighton, UK.
Abstract: We examine the quality of published accounting education research and compare to the quality of the research in published general higher education journals. We find that accounting education research compares poorly with general education research. The reasons for this poor performance are associated with failures to address methodology (not method), to problematize the issues and to theorise the cases. We propose modifying accounting education research to emulate research in general education. We recognise that this is a difficult task due to the historically constructed power relationships with accounting education research, the cultural capital inherent in the dominant style of accounting education research and the habitus it has created. We argue that the nature of accounting education research needs to change to end the symbolic violence inflicted on researchers and, through them, accounting students.
Research by Frances Miley and Andrew Read 