Associate Professor Nicholas McGuigan, of Monash Business School (Monash University) presents “Navigating Worlds: A Creative and Exploratory Investigation of the Student’s Lifeworld”. 

When: Friday 7th September 2018, 11.00am
Where: UNE Business School Lecture Theatre 2, W40
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The future employment markets our graduates are likely to face are increasingly complex and unpredictable.

Demands are being placed on higher education providers to become more holistic and integrated in their approach. For business schools across Australia, this requires a significant (re)conceptualisation of how student learning is facilitated, in respect to content, processes, and infrastructure. Future business professionals will be required to think in diverse and integrated ways, adopting transdisciplinary approaches to solve complex system-design problems. This calls for educators to focus on creativity and innovation and in response, we need to reinterpret our teaching philosophies, content, and processes. By exploring the Bauhaus pedagogical process of ‘unlearning’ in accounting curricula, a dynamic, engaging, and creative space can be opened up for learners and educators alike. ‘Unlearning’ can support a critical and reflective culture for both students and teachers that nurture a deeper understanding of the ‘ways of thinking’ as business professionals.

Nicholas McGuigan is Associate Professor at Monash Business School, Monash University, and Co-Founder of The Accountability Institute. Nick is directly involved in applied research, focusing on the enhancement of educational programs of accountants. His research interests include student conceptions of learning, learning technologies, integrated thinking and creativity, innovation, systems design and regenerative economics. Nick has led and/or taken key roles in competitive research funded projects equating to just over one million Australian dollars, including Federal State level grants in both Australia and Germany. He has published widely in international accounting and education journals, presented at numerous conferences and been invited to present at research centres and professional organisations in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Nick has co­founded The Accountability Institute to push forward the accounting education agenda in creative and dynamic ways. The Accountability Institute is a progressive platform that aims to foster collaborations between art, science, technology and economics, bringing these fields into conversation to create a new accounting language – a language of accountability. Nick has held visiting academic positions in Germany, England and New Zealand, and he has been appointed to various American Accounting Association (AAA) committees. He is currently the Co­Chair of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), Accounting Education Special Interest Group, and is chartering an accounting futures project. Nick is an Associate Editor of Issues in Accounting Education, Accounting Education and Higher Education and Research (HERD) journal.