AJAL Volume 65, Number 3, Special Edition, November 2025
EDITORIAL
Robert Townsend and Jeffrey Bryant Jones
Celebrating 65 Years
Celebrating 65 years of Adult Learning Australia 1960-2025
Jenny Macaffer
Refereed articles
Therapeutic Theatre as a process for the inclusion of students with mild dementia in Adult Community Education courses
Jeffrey Bryant Jones
Performing pedagogy: Exploring the impact of theatre in trauma-informed teacher education
Anne Southall, Juliana Ryan, Siobhan O’Brian and Melissa Giles
Reimagining learning spaces: A call to action for the Schools of Social Work
Ashwathi Muraleedharan and Lizy P.J.
Utilising photovoice to engage critical reflection of field placement experiences among international university students
Shane McDonald, Mary-Anne Wallwork and Lauren Terzis
Transformative journeys beyond schooling: Storytelling and poetic inquiry as catalysts for adult learning in community spaces
Tracey Ollis and Vicky Duckworth
Effects of a creative pedagogy (peer instruction) in promoting learners’ subjective well-being in a seniors’ university in China
Chunlin Yao, Zonglin Dai and Yan Zhang
Curious-creativity and ageing: An Australian conversation crisscrossing lifelong learning
Carol McDonough and Samantha Bews
Creative polygogies: Facilitating transformation through perinatal singing
Georgina Veevers-Williams
Creating value for creatives: Considerations in the design and evaluation of an online professional learning community
Liesel M. Arden and Catherine H. Arden
Beyond the stethoscope: Dance, creativity and the healing arts in medical education
Lucy Mayes
Book reviews
Arts education and creative ageing: Older adults as learners, makers, and teachers of art
– By Melanie Davenport, Linda Hoeptner Poling, Rebecca Bourgault & Majorie Cohee Manifold
Reviewed by Carol McDounogh
Writing with students: New perspectives on collaborative writing in EAP contexts
– By Lucy Macnaugth
Reviewed by Garry Argent
Call for papers
Special Edition: Australian Journal of Adult Learning:
Policy, practice and pedagogy: Adult education in times of decaying capitalism and failed democracy
Volume 65, Number 2, July 2025
EDITORIAL
Cheryl Ryan and Piper Rodd
Refereed articles
The Certificate IV Training and Assessment qualification: Intended to innovate, but falling short
Roz Jani
“They can slip through the cracks”: Supporting domestic EAL students as they begin university studies
Jenny McDougall, Caroline Henderson-Brooks and R. E. Harreveld
Motivating adult learners to join literacy programs in Morocco
Mohammed Amine Douai and Redouan Abdenour
The characteristics of expert feedback in vocational teachers’ professional learning
Xinglin Jin, Dineke Tigelaar, Anna van der Want and Wilfried Admiraal
From practice
The Dump
Griff Foley
Book reviews
The age of insecurity: Coming together as things fall apart
– By Astra Taylor
Reviewed by Kent Getsinger
Volume 65, Number 1, April 2025
EDITORIAL
Cheryl Ryan and Piper Rodd
Refereed articles
Challenges and opportunities in empowering adult CALD learners: Insights from Australian adult community educators
Anneleis Humphries and Gosia Klatt
Intergenerational learning for active aging amid the pandemic: Chinese immigrant seniors’ online learning in Canada
Yidan Zhu and Weiguo Zhang
Digital poverty, trauma, and education: Reflections from the crisis pivot to online learning
Janine Arentes
COVID-19 and social equity in higher education: Applying a typology of social equity discourses to a complex situation
Ana Larsen and Susan Emmett
Successful reemployment of middle-aged and older adults in Taiwan: A basis of lifelong learning experiences
Ya-Hui Lee and Yi-Fen Weng
Book reviews
Six Peaks speak. Unsettling legacies in Southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country
– By Barry Golding with Clive Willman
Reviewed by Gill Gammage