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Volume 64, Number 3, Special Edition, November 2024

EDITORIAL

Susan Holloway and Patricia Gouthro

Refereed articles

Literacies practitioners resisting human capital theory through values-based approaches
Lyn Tett

Literacies and learning: An exploration into women’s digital literacy practices and sustainable livelihoods in rural Zambia
John Zimba

Encouraging transformative and creative learning in adult literacy education through artistic literacies
Karen Magro

Towards affective literacy for adult migrants: A systematic literature review
Carmen Toscano-Fuentes, Analí Fernández-Corbacho & M. Carmen Fonseca-Mora

Critical food literacy: Learning to challenge power in the food system
Jennifer Sumner

Developing critical literacies in US adult education degree programs: What is advertised on university websites?
Petra Robinson & Maja Stojanovic

Adult (multi)literacies for global equity/social justice in challenging times
Kathy Sanford, Bruno de Oliveira Jayme & Tanya Manning- Lewis

stories of PRACTICE

Beyond language barriers: One educator’s tale of nurturing critical literacy success in refugee-background adult learners
Anneleis Humphries, Catherine Smith & Julie Choi

Citizen literacy: A story of changing practice
John Casey & Diane Gardner

Working with learners with (dis)abilities: How New Literacy Studies challenge the Ontario government’s policy focus on employment for adult literacy
Annie Luk, Judy Perry & Phylicia Davis-Wesseling

Book reviews

Literacy in the lives of working-class adults in Australia, dominant versus local voices
– By Stephen Black
Reviewed by Trace Ollis

AJAL EDITOR – EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Volume 64, Number 2, July 2024

Editorial

Trace Ollis

Refereed articles

The experiences of an online academic advising approach supporting adult learners transition into an enabling program preparing them for university
Mary McGovern, Russell Crank and Orie Green

Bessie Harrison Lee’s fight for Victorian Women’s Suffrage in the late nineteenth century: educating rural and urban women on the democratic process
Jennifer Caligari 

Adult, community education in acting and performance as personal development: “I can look people in the eye now”
Rob Townsend and Jeffrey Bryant Jones

Perceptions of adult learners with visual impairment throughout COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for institutional assistance in Eswatini
Nomazulu Ngozwana 

FROM PRACTICE

Supporting diverse learner needs: A case study using the 8 Ways of Aboriginal Learning
Rachel Leigh Taylor

Book reviews

Making connections: A selection of writings 1983 – 2009
– By Delia Bradshaw
Reviewed by Ursula Harrison

Adult language education and migration: Challenging agendas in policy and practice
– By James Simpson and Anne Whiteside (Eds.)
Reviewed by Kenneth Charles Lambo

Volume 64, Number 1, April 2024

EDITORIAL

Trace Ollis

Refereed articles

Multimodal adult learning through arts-based organisations Susan M. Holloway and Patricia A. Gouthro

Recognising the Budj Bim cultural landscape as World Heritage: How a socio-material approach bridged the tangible-intangible heritage gap Tony Brown 

PD: a professional deterrence? The financial cost and time commitment of professional development for VET practitioners in Western Australia Christopher Ward and Piper Rodd

Running head: Empowering Saudi women through vocational skills Sarah M. Alajlan and Obaidalah H. Aljohani

Supporting students who are parents to succeed in Australian higher education Giovanna Szalkowicz and Lisa Andrewartha

FROM PRACTICE

Advising senior management leaders on the doctoral research journey by applying traditional adult learning practices for industry contexts Barry Elsey

Book reviews

Online teaching and learning in higher education during COVID-19
– By Roy Chan, Krishna Bista and Ryan Allen
Reviewed by Lei Xia

 

Volume 63, Number 3, November 2023

Editorial

Cheryl Ryan and Stephen Billett

Refereed articles

Analysing work and life course learning under capitalism using a mind in political economy approach
Peter Sawchuck

Workplace practices that support learning across working life
Sarojni Choy and Anh Hai Le

Promoting student readiness for work-life through internships: Challenges and support
Natasha Tan, Chue Shien, Cheryl Ong and Stephen Billett

Social participation, altruism and learning opportunism: A phenomenography of adults’ learning through workplace experiences in rural community volunteering
Catherine Arden

Adult learners in police and technology work in Finland: Andragogical features behind learning at work
Soila Lemmetty, Kaisu Hämäläinen and Kaija Collin

Vocational learning of incident commanders in tunnel fire safety work
Gabriela Bjørnsen and Ove Njå

Specialists’ views on feedback at the medical workplace
Helen Jossberger and Miriama Schlachtová

The experiences of doctoral students working in university settings
Emine Karaduman, Rukiye Bektas and Ozlem Unluhisarcikli

Exploring the effects of working practice in cultivating Chinese university teachers’ professional identity
Chunlin Yao and Jie Yang

Book reviews

Map it: The hands-on guide to strategic training design – By Cathy Moore Reviewed by Lexi Keeton

Call for Papers

Power, policies, and practices in adult literacies
Abstracts due: February 1, 2024 – Papers due:  May 15, 2024

Volume 63, Number 2, July 2023

Editorial

Trace Ollis

Refereed articles

Why some homogeneous adult learning groups may be necessary for encouraging diversity: A theory of conditional social equality
Helene Ahl, Joel Hedegaard and Barry Golding

Post-school dilemmas in diminished society: Workingclass mothers’ perspectives of choices and realities in their communities
Piper Rodd and Kerrie Sanders

Doing and supervising China Studies PhD projects in Australia:
Experiences of Chinese PhD students and Australian supervisors
Jian Xu and Wai-wan Vivien Chan

Self-authored motivations of US adult basic education English learners
Jennifer Ouellette-Schramm

Cultural participation patterns of prospective teachers in the
context of informal learning
Peri Tutar

Book reviews

Transformative teaching and learning in further education: Pedagogies of hope and social justice – By Rob Smith and Vicky Duckworth
Reviewed by Margaret Malloch

Online teaching and learning in higher education during COVID-19
– By Roy Chan, Krishna Bista and Ryan Allen
Reviewed by Lei Xia

Online Forum

Adult learning education on climate justice
Wednesday, 20 September 2023  

Volume 63, Number 1, April 2023

Editorial
Trace Ollis

Refereed articles

Whack-a-Mole?: Ecologies of young adults with intellectual disabilities as they transition from school to open employment
Donna Rooney and Kirsty Young

Travelling in time via narration: Three types of biographical learning
Katarina Rozvadská

Learning in multicultural workspaces
Robert Godby

Adult immigration learners’ perspectives of their language experience
Merih Ugurel Kamisli

Book review

Shoulder to shoulder: Broadening the Men’s Shed movement – By Barry Golding
Reviewed by Ursula Harrison

Online Forum

Adult learning education on climate justice
Wednesday, 20 September 2023  

Volume 62, Number 3, November 2022 – Special edition: Adult learning education for climate action

Editorial
Hilary Whitehouse and Robert b. Stevenson
Refereed articles

Towards an emergent curriculum for climate justice adult educators/activists
Shirley Walters, Astrid von Kotze, Joy K. P. O’Neil, Jane Burt, Colette February and Darlene Clover

The affective dimension of crisis subjects: Teaching environmental communication through intersecting crisis
Tania Leimbach, Jennifer Kent and Jeremy Walker

The craft of wisdom: Climate activist learning in the hands of Australia’s Knitting Nannas
Larraine Larri

Gesturing not acting: Searching for policy guidance for Australian climate educators
Hilary Whitehouse and Annette Gough

from practice

A climate education to Chinese adult learners in an English class with a project based learning method
Chunlin Yao

From activism, through academia into deep adaptation
Piotr Kowzan

Learning to change: Climate action pedagogy
Tania Leimbach and Tema Milstein

Commentary

Climate movements, learning and the politics of climate action in Australia
Robert B. Stevenson

Book reviews

Annotation – By Remi Kalir & Antory Garcia
Reviewed by Meg Colasante

Transformational feminist politics, education and social justice: Post democracy and post truth – By Silvia Edling & Sheila Macrine (Eds.)
Reviewed by Jennifer Caligari

Call for papers

Special edition 2023: Contributions of workplace experiences to adults’ lifelong learning