Understanding Vocational Accounting Students' Attitudes towards Sustainable Development

Autor/inn/en	Liu, Xin; Chen, Yishan; Yang, Yong; Liu, Bo; Ma, Caiyun; Craig, Gordon R.; Gao, Fei
Titel	Understanding Vocational Accounting Students' Attitudes towards Sustainable Development
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 74 (2022) 2, S.249-269 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Liu, Xin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-6820
DOI	10.1080/13636820.2020.1760333
Schlagwörter	Vocational Education; College Students; Student Attitudes; Sustainable Development; Gender Differences; Student Characteristics; Foreign Countries; Accounting; Beliefs; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Ausland; Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Belief; Glaube
Abstract	The goal of this study was twofold: firstly, to investigate vocational accounting students' attitudes towards sustainable development; secondly, to explore the influence of students' professional scepticism on their attitudes towards sustainable development. We surveyed 363 accounting students enrolled in a vocational college in China. We found that students had the most favourable attitudes towards the educational dimension of sustainable development and the least favourable attitudes towards the social dimension. Female students had significantly more favourable attitudes towards the environmental and educational dimensions of sustainable development, as compared to male students. Students at higher academic levels had significantly more favourable attitudes towards the educational dimension of sustainable development, as compared to students at lower academic levels. We also found that the questioning mind dimension of professional scepticism played the largest role in fostering the students' favourable attitudes towards sustainable development, followed by the search for knowledge and interpersonal understanding dimensions, then by the suspension of judgement, self-confidence, and self-determining dimensions. The results of this study provide insights for educators to improve the accounting curriculum in vocational higher education in China. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01