Percepção sobre a disciplina Prática Contábil no curso de graduação em Ciências Contábeis: um estudo de caso com discentes de uma IFES

Abstract

This explorative research aimed to analyze, under the experiential pedagogic view, the Practical Accounting class, which is found in the curricula of the undergraduate courses of Accounting Sciences. Aspects pertinent to the accounting education are highlighted and/or criticized by using study case methods. The motivational potentiality and the ability to stimulate criticism are emphasized in the experiential approach. Consequences for professionalization are also pointed out. By applying this methodology on the selected case, the perception on the accounting laboratory in the undergraduate course of Accounting Sciences offered by a Brazilian IFES is investigated. The role of the Instituição Federal de Ensino Superior (IFES) faculty, the main agents responsible for the improvement of the teaching-learning process in Accounting, is finally focused. By means of a bibliographic review, a semi-structured guide including several questions on the theme was prepared. This guide was later used for the collection of data during the interviews. The answers and reaction to this guide were used to report and analyze the results of the interviews. Four hypotheses for future research, justified by evidence collected from the case, are proposed.