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Applying the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm to the Creation of an Accounting Ethics Course

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This article explains how and why the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP), a 450-year-old approach to education, can serve as a framework for a modern principles-based ethics course in accounting. The IPP takes a holistic view of the world, combining five elements: context, experience, reflection, action, and evaluation. We describe the components of the IPP and discuss how they align with suggestions from prior research for providing principles-based ethics instruction in accounting. We conclude by describing how we used the IPP as a framework to create a graduate-level accounting ethics course.

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Van Hise, J., Massey, D.W. Applying the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm to the Creation of an Accounting Ethics Course. J Bus Ethics 96, 453–465 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-010-0477-2

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