Understanding and Addressing Barriers to Indigenous Learners in Business and Accounting Studies
This research addresses a significant gap in understanding the barriers Indigenous peoples face as they pursue business and accounting disciplines at the post-secondary level. Using structured interviews and content analysis, the study explored barriers and means the learners used and opined to remo...
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ftunivcalgary:oai:prism.ucalgary.ca:1880/116584 2023-10-09T21:52:57+02:00 Understanding and Addressing Barriers to Indigenous Learners in Business and Accounting Studies Andrews, Cyril Robert Osiyevskyy, Oleksiy Jones, Vernon James Radnejad, Amir Bahman Dewald, James Richard Prete, Tiffany 2023-05-17 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1880/116584 https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41427 en eng Graduate Studies University of Calgary Andrews, C. R. (2023). Understanding and addressing barriers to Indigenous learners in business and accounting studies (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. https://hdl.handle.net/1880/116584 https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41427 University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. Indigenous barriers Indigenous peoples First Nation Inuit Métis post-secondary education accounting business business education systemic barriers racism lateral violence anti-Indigenous stigma CPA Chartered Professional Accountants systemic racism institutional racism Indigenous values Business Administration--Management Education--Business doctoral thesis 2023 ftunivcalgary https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41427 2023-09-24T17:42:52Z This research addresses a significant gap in understanding the barriers Indigenous peoples face as they pursue business and accounting disciplines at the post-secondary level. Using structured interviews and content analysis, the study explored barriers and means the learners used and opined to remove or reduce those barriers. In addition, the research offers policy recommendations, including but not limited to the accounting profession, to address these challenges. The research also examines Indigenous peoples’ attitudes toward the accounting and business profession. This practical approach, with application to the accounting profession, bridges the practitioner-scholar gap noted in extant research. The findings suggest that the challenges are complex and interconnected and are deeply socialized in the fabric of Canada through societal biases and structural impediments within institutions that directly result from government policy, reserves, and residential schools. The research highlights issues not previously identified in the literature, including lateral violence and anti-business stigma within the Indigenous community as well as identifying an ontological reductionist fallacy of grouping dissimilar peoples together and forming policy as programs as though these groups were homogenous. Moreover, the colonial legacy, legislative and regulatory environments create a unique context for the study. It concludes that the nature of the problem may best be understood as a “wicked problem” and that collaborative approaches are likely the most suited to addressing the identified barriers. A conceptual co-evolutionary framework is proposed to relate the various barriers, structural impediments, and resulting barriers to business education specifically but also to post-secondary education generally. Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis inuit PRISM - University of Calgary Digital Repository Canada |
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This research addresses a significant gap in understanding the barriers Indigenous peoples face as they pursue business and accounting disciplines at the post-secondary level. Using structured interviews and content analysis, the study explored barriers and means the learners used and opined to remove or reduce those barriers. In addition, the research offers policy recommendations, including but not limited to the accounting profession, to address these challenges. The research also examines Indigenous peoples’ attitudes toward the accounting and business profession. This practical approach, with application to the accounting profession, bridges the practitioner-scholar gap noted in extant research. The findings suggest that the challenges are complex and interconnected and are deeply socialized in the fabric of Canada through societal biases and structural impediments within institutions that directly result from government policy, reserves, and residential schools. The research highlights issues not previously identified in the literature, including lateral violence and anti-business stigma within the Indigenous community as well as identifying an ontological reductionist fallacy of grouping dissimilar peoples together and forming policy as programs as though these groups were homogenous. Moreover, the colonial legacy, legislative and regulatory environments create a unique context for the study. It concludes that the nature of the problem may best be understood as a “wicked problem” and that collaborative approaches are likely the most suited to addressing the identified barriers. A conceptual co-evolutionary framework is proposed to relate the various barriers, structural impediments, and resulting barriers to business education specifically but also to post-secondary education generally. |
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