The development of the interdisciplinary practices in the teaching of the controllership inside the accounting sciences courses in higher education institutions in the cities of Londrina and Rôlandia.

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the interdisciplinary practices in the controllership discipline in accounting courses in Londrina and Rolândia institutions, according to the perceptions of teachers who teach the discipline and students of the last year in the same course and institutions. In Brazil, only in recent years, especially after the adoption of current national curriculum guidelines for the accounting sciences courses, the controllership contents now are grouped into specific modules under the nomenclature "controllership". Thus, this research seeks to answer the following question: how the accounting science courses, of these higher education institutions are developing the interdisciplinary in the controllership discipline? Questionnaires were applied among teachers and students with multiple choices questions, and the responses analyzed using statistical methods. We analyzed such topics as teacher participation in developing of the pedagogical project, the knowledge search by the student outside the institution, among others. The results indicate that the interdisciplinary practices in the controllership discipline have much to be improved by both teachers and students.