Cultivating socially responsible and ethical chartered accountant business leaders: A citizenship pedagogical framework grounded in the local and the global

Abstract

Chartered accountant educators and accounting students at a historically disadvantaged institution (HDI) in South Africa explored concepts of responsible decision-making and leadership, social justice and the effect of decisions on local and global communities and the environment within the business context. The workshop was grounded on the global, focusing on sustainable human and planetary well-being and the local, centring on the notion of ubuntu. Specifically, this workshop was framed in line with the notion of glo-ubuntu as an extension of global citizenship education (GCE). The workshop’s purpose was to create a space for students to engage with the consequences of business leaders’ decisions critically. This was to be achieved by drawing on their embodied knowledge and nurturing, as future business leaders, social awareness of the need for decisions that are just – towards social cohesion, restorative justice and planetary well-being through sustainable businesses.