Looking within: cultivating compassion for shaping sustainable mindsets in accounting education

What is it about?

The authors explore the role of individual inner dimensions, specifically compassion, in shaping sustainable mindsets in accounting education. Approaches to cultivating and facilitating compassion for human and nonhuman species within accounting pedagogies and curricula design are presented, highlighting their relevance to accounting decisions and organisational accountability. Cultivating compassion within accounting students promotes a sustainable mindset, enhances connections across species, and encourages students to recognise the role of compassion in sustainable decision-making. Enhanced compassion in accounting graduates could provide the motivational force for action-oriented responses from the accounting profession to the unprecedented ecological crisis.

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