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