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ALVES DIOS, Selma  y  COSENZA, José Paulo. Considerations on the Development of a Model for Emancipatory Environmental Education in Professional Accounting Education. Rev.fac.cienc.econ. [online]. 2019, vol.27, n.2, pp.127-144. ISSN 0121-6805.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rfce.3905.

This paper presents a theoretical review about the integration of environmental issues into accounting education; it also links the basic principles of a sustainable society and discusses the limitations of the conventional academic model and its impact on accountant education related to environmental knowledge. For this purpose, constructive alternatives were analyzed for a systemic, critical and innovative vision in the academic development of faculty, translated into the education of students from a humanitarian and social perspective that includes the biological and collective life of all species as the central point of concerns about society and sustainability. Research is qualitative in its approach the problem, descriptive in terms of its objective, and documentary in the type of research procedure. The contents of research articles published in accounting journals were analyze during data treatment to produce data by examining the nature and context of the studied phenomenon. The study of results shows that the dominant model of environmental education does not provide an accounting education that values critical, reflective and purposeful thinking, and it is intended to maintain economic, social and environmental issues in line with sustainable development and nature.

Palabras clave : Transdisciplinary knowledge; sustainable development; environmental education; accounting education; teaching methodology.

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