ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the context for critical accounting education and considers key elements relating to its future development. It examines six theoretical and practical guideposts for critical accounting education. First are three aspects of the context for critical accounting education: the ongoing official reform agenda, a perspective on the meaning of education and a consideration of the contemporary academic context within which critical accounting education is situated. Then, three foundations of critical accounting education are considered: praxis, reflexivity and re-thinking accounting critically. The chapter focuses on the implications for further development of critical accounting education. Critical accounting education implies a much broader consideration of accounting and accountability by looking at and beyond the margins of accounting where perhaps the most interesting and important developments within the discipline lie. The future of critical accounting education, just as its present, is historically contingent.
