The field as our classroom: Applications in a business-related setting

Abstract

The 'field-trip' as part of the educational experience is not new, and issues associated with it have been explored in the literature from a variety of perspectives. Site-visits and work experience-based placements provide the potential to add value to the educational experience of students across and within multiple sectors. But not all field-trips are equal, both in terms of their nature and their learning outcomes. In this teaching note, we document the use of the field as our classroom in two distinct settings, both of which are full subjects in themselves: one at the undergraduate level, the other at the postgraduate level. The first is an International Accounting Study Program conducte..