Ethical and civic reflection in students of accounting through Service based learning: An exploratory study

Teaching across the curriculum in higher education involves the combination technical knowledge with tasks in ethics and citizenship that favor an integrated education on students. In this work of reflection on teaching practice to accounting students from the last year, we present the results of an educational intervention in social institutions, through the development of a comprehensive audit by the students, using Service Learning as a teaching technique. The objectives of the study were: to identify the levels of reflection in students, to identify the presence of indicators of citizenship and ethics competences in different sources of students evidence and describe the relationship of Service Learning with the development of reflection and training in ethics and citizenship. The results indicate a descriptive reflection process, with emphasis on the management and resolution of conflicts, resulting from the application of the teaching technique.