Australian Journal of Adult Learning
Critical thinking and research in the field of adult learning
Author: Barbara Sedorkin, Adelaide
Edition: Volume 46, Number 3, November 2006
Summary: This report has been submitted by Barbara who is writing a book on the history of The Parks High School. It is an extract from her Chapter 6, ‘Decline and closure’.
Keywords: history
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Author/s: Tony Brown
Edition: Volume 50, Number 3, November 2010
Summary: Adult education’s continuing purpose has been questioned by writers for over twenty years and today the re-organisation and closure of some University departments brings this issue to the fore. This paper takes up the theme of really useful knowledge in a changing world from the standpoint of teaching adult education history to graduate students. Many enter their new field of practice unaware of the specific social contexts of the foundations of adult education in different places, or the genealogy of its current manifestations. Examining these different contexts, traditions, practices and practitioners can enable students to better locate themselves, connect with different traditions, understand the past and position themselves for their future. Secondly, the paper considers the idea of locating oneself in a rapidly changing political economy that has emerged from the global economic crisis and recession, the effects of which are expected to continue into the next decade.
Keywords: adult education, history, graduates, social context, political economy
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This article is part of AJAL, Volume 50_3. The entire volume is available in .pdf for purchase here.
Author/s: Roger Morris
Edition: Volume 51, Number 4, Special edition, December 2011
Summary: Arnold Hely (1907–1967) was a most significant figure in the history of adult education in New Zealand, in Australia and internationally. Arnold Hely, a New Zealander, Director of Tutorial Classes (later Adult Education) at the University of Adelaide from 1957 to 1965, was the prime mover in the establishment in 1964 of the Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education (ASPBAE) and was, until his most untimely death in 1967, its General Secretary. He previously had played, as an impartial newcomer/outsider, a leading role in the formation in 1960 of ALA (then called AAAE). In this paper I will focus on Hely’s efforts to bring Australian adult education into the mainstream of world adult education. In telling Hely’s story I will explore the context of Australian adult education in the 1950s and 1960s.
Keywords: Arnold Hely, adult education, 1950, 1960, history
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This article is part of AJAL, Volume 51_4_Special Edition. The entire volume is available in .pdf for purchase here.
Author/s: Roger Harris and Anne Morrison
Edition: Volume 51, Special edition, December 2011
Summary: In this paper we review fifty years of articles published in Australian Journal of Adult Learning in its various iterations. Continue reading “Through the looking glass: adult education through the lens of the AJAL over fifty years”