Take a look inside the latest Australian Journal of Adult Learning.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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