AJAL Volume 66 / Number 1 / April 2026

AJAL Volume 66, Number 1, April 2026

Editorial

Cheryl Ryan and Piper Rodd

Refereed articles

Facilitating knowledge transfer agency: Pedagogic interventions in a leadership development program
Jon Ohlsson and Erica Wright

Adult numeracy in rural Australian vocational education: From autonomous to ideological models
Richard Voss

Adult education as a Community of Practice – Foreign-born students navigating participation in education at a Swedish Folk High School
Therese Uppman, Cecillia Bjursell and Joel Hedegaard

Exploring early university class exposure: Impact on academic self-efficacy and study intentions
Amonrat Thoumrungroje and Olimpia Rac

Training for bushfires: Qualification-based training for volunteer firefighters
Erica Smith and Arelene Walker

From practice

The practice of critical, public pedagogy in times of war
Piper Rodd

Book review

Creating a place for adult learners in higher education: Challenges and opportunities
– By Amy D. Rose, Jovita M. Ross-Gordon, Carol E. Kasworm

Reviewed by Weiping Wu and Qun Fu