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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