2024
Volume 64, Number 1, April 2024
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 - 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
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2023
Volume 63, Number 3, November 2023
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
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Volume 63, Number 3, November 2023
Volume 63, Number 2, July 2023
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
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Volume 63, Number 2, July 2023
Volume 63, Number 1, April 2023
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
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2022
Volume 62, Number 3, November 2022 Special edition: Adult learning education for climate action
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 review
- 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
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Volume 62, Number 3, November 2022
Volume 62, Number 2, July 2022
- Common sense and police practice: It goes without saying Cheryl Ryan
- First-year university retention and academic performance of nontraditional students entering via an Australian pre-university enabling program Joanne G. Lisciandro
- Survival narratives from single mothers in an enabling program: ‘Just hope you don’t get sick and live off caffeine’ Anne Braund, Trixie James, Katrina Johnston and Louise Mullaney
- COVID–19 the Catalyst for a new paradigm in vocational education and training Susan Bandias, Rajeev Sharma and Alana Anderson
- The role of Learning Neighborhood Programme in achieving the necessary life skills for adult learners in Saudi Arabia to confront the COVID-19 crisis Obaidalah Aljohani and Sarah M. Alajlan
Book review
- Out of the ruins: The emergence of radical informal learning spaces – by Robert H Haworth & John M Elmore (editors). Reviewed by Meaghan O’Brien
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Volume 62, Number 2, July 2022
Volume 62, Number 1, April 2022
- A gendered therapeutic learning landscape: Responding creatively to a pandemic Annette Folely, Helen Weadon, Sharon McDonough and Rachel Taylor
- Lifelong learning and adult education in Japan Anh Le and Stephen Billett
- Maximising PBL in police education: Why understanding the facilitator role is a key factor in developing learning for police problem-solving Brett Shipton
- Transforming adult learners: The experiences of participating in the second chance education program Omar Keita and Ya-Hui Lee
- Education as change: Liberation from mental illness and self-stigma in favour of empowerment Joel Hedegaard and Martin Hugo
Book review
- Studies in expansive learning: Learning what is not yet there – By Yrjö Engeström Reviewed by Stuart Hawken
- Justice and the politics of difference – By Iris Marion Young Reviewed by Cheryl Ryan
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2021
Volume 61, Number 3, November 2021
Editorial
- Education as the practice of freedom Fergal Finnegan, Peter Lavender & Alan Tuckett with Trace Ollis
Poem
- Surf on Pauliño Budd Hall
Refereed articles
- A historical remembrance of Paulo Freire in South Africa: A tale of two activists John Aitchinson & Veronica Irene McKay
- Our homeland is humanity: The Cuban School of Literacy and Pedagogy of the Oppressed Bob Boughton & Deborah Durnan
- Revisiting Freire Griff Foley
- Becoming an activist-scholar through Pedagogy of the Oppressed: An autoethnographic account of engaging with Freire as a teacher and researcher Helen Underhill
- Annunciation and denunciation in Paulo Freire’s dialogical popular education Linden West
From the field
- Literacy and transformation: Shedding of spoilt identities Vicky Duckworth & Marie McNamara
Letters to those who dare to teach: Another world is possible
- Paulo Freire: A necessary voice Sergio Haddad
- The critical power of Freire’s work Licínio C. Lima
- Letters to those who dare teach: Another world is possible Paul Gurton
- A RED-letter day Tony Davis
Book review
- Socially just pedagogies: Posthumanist, feminist and materialist perspectives in higher education – Vivienne Bozalek, Rosi Braidotti, Tamara Shefer and Michalinos Zembylas (eds.) Reviewed by Natalie Purves
Call for papers
- Adult learning education for climate action Hilary Whitehouse & Bob Stevenson
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Volume 61, Number 3, November 2021
Volume 61, Number 2, July 2021
Featured article
- Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for lifelong learning Henrique Lopes & Veronica Irene McKay
Refereed articles
- The Women’s Shed movement: Scoping the field internationally Barry Golding, Lucia Carragher & Annette Foley
- Echoes of the Grand Tour: Shared international experiences in nursing education George Lafferty & Francis Lyn
- Becoming a social entrepreneur: Individual and collective learning in communities of practice Morteza Eslahchi & Ali Osman
- A deep active learning approach to exploring young adults’ learning in a picture book elective Nini Zhang, Huijun Zhao & Karen Guo
- Learning to change: Transformative outcomes of participation in programs and activities among family caregivers of people with dementia in Taiwan Chia-Ming Yen
- The influential factors of university teachers’ lifelong learning in professional development Hongyan Zhou & Chia-Ching Tu
Book reviews
- Educating the deliberate professional: Preparing for future practices – Franziska Trede & Celina McEwen (eds.) Reviewed by Cheryl Ryan
- Learning in work: A negotiation model of socio-personal learning – Raymond Smith Reviewed by Marg Malloch
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Volume 61, Number 2, July 2021
Volume 61, Number 1, April 2021
- Psychological distress among students in enabling education. Johanna Nieuwoudt
- Try before you buy: Using enabling programs to negotiate the risks of higher education. Lynn Jarvis
- Factors likely to sustain a mature-age student to completion of their doctorate. Robert Templeton
- Guaranteed Minimum Income and Universal Basic Income programs: Implications for adult education. Juan Ramón Rodríguez-Fernández & Spyros Themelis
- In search of biographical ageing – a research-based concept. Małgorzata Malec-Rawiński
Book review
- Research methods for social justice and equity in education – Liz Atkins and Vicky Duckworth (2020) Reviewed by Peter Lavender
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2020
Volume 60, Number 3, November 2020
- Getting serious: The national ‘vision splendid’ for adult education 60 years on
Barry Golding - Educating Australian adults in an era of social and economic change
Stephen Billet & Darryl Dymock - Esmonde Higgins and the lost history of Australian adult education Bob Boughton
- Sixty years of adult learning in Aotearoa New Zealand: Looking back to the 1960s and beyond the 2020s Diana Amundsen
- Practice in the social space of Neighbourhood Houses: Community, relationships and adult learning Ursula Harrison, Tracey Ollis & Cheryl Ryan
- Wyndham City: A tale of steady progress towards a sustainable learning community Leone Wheeler & Diane Tabbagh
- Community learning through adversity and disaster: An Australian case study of rural adaptation and resilience beyond paid work Barry Golding, Annette Foley & Helen Weadon
- Adult Learning Australia history timeline: Sixty year ALA history, including the broader Australian adult and community education (ACE) context
Barry Golding
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Volume 60, Number 2, July 2020
- Maestras: Exploring dialectical relationships in an Aboriginal literacy campaign
Frances Williamson, Deborah Durnan, Tannia Edwards & Mary Waites - How positive is positive psychology in an enabling program?
Trixie James & Vikki Walters - Support matters: Predictors of intrinsic motivation in older learners in Taiwan
Yi-Yin Lin - Emerging adulthood and its effect on adult education
David Meier - Developing a case-based experiential learning model at a program level in a regional university: Reflections on the developmental process
Tejaswini Patil, Michelle Hunt, Kimberlea Cooper & Rob Townsend - Promoting quality learning and teaching pedagogy: Evaluating a targeted localised academic induction program (AIP) for the impact on continuing professional development Sara Weuffen, Tulsa Andrews & Kate Roberts
- Adult community education: Australian environmental scan
Adult Learning Australia
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Volume 60, Number 1, April 2020
- An age of endarkenment? Can adult education still make a difference? Tony Brown
- A vocational stream for social care workers: A case study Sally Thompson
- Transformative learning through mindfulness: Exploring the mechanism of change Thomas Howard Morris
- Misconceptions in the knowledge of vocational fitness students and graduates Daniel J Jolley, Melissa Davis and Andrew P Lavender
- Opportunities for change: What factors influence non-traditional students to enrol in higher education? Deanna McCall, Deborah Western and Melissa Petrakis
- Making the intangible, tangible: Assessment design that fosters curiosity, confidence and collaboration during international short-term study tours for Australian students Mark William Pennings, Debra Flanders Cushing, Rafael Gomez and Clare Dyson
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2019
Volume 59, Number 3, November 2019
- Close, yet so far apart: Bridging social movement theory with popular education
- Learning by participating in social movements: Ethnographic research in Madrid (Spain)
- Here we stand: The pedagogy of Occupy Wall Street
- Learning in social movements: Emotion, identity and Egyptian diaspora becoming ‘logically and emotionally invested’ in the continuing struggle
- Reconceptualising activism for a pedagogy of struggle: Occupying education, the power of the empty signifier for the future of education
- Student voice and agency for Indigenous Māori students in higher education transitions
- Exploring the power of the media in promoting lifelong learning and popular mobilisation drive against ‘Galamsey’ in Ghana
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Volume 59, Number 3, November 2019
Volume 59, Number 2, July 2019
- Interactivity, connectedness and ‘teacher-presence’: Engaging and retaining students online
- A picture paints a thousand words: Collage-making in higher education problem-based learning
- Adult learning: Barriers and enablers to advancement in Canadian power engineering
- Adult learners’ needs in online and blended learning viewed through the lens of existence, relatedness and growth (ERG) theory
- Horse talk: Equine based learning programs and their engagement with individuals
- Psychological bases of developing social competences of seniors with disability
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Volume 59, Number 2, July 2019
Volume 59, Number 1, April 2019
- Are we all on course? A curriculum mapping comparison of three Australian university open-access enabling programs
- Nannagogy: Social movement learning for older women’s activism in the gas fields of Australia
- The need for a complexity informed active citizenship education program
- Learning to deal with freedom and restraints: Elderly women’s experiences of their husbands visiting a Men’s Shed
- Generativity and life satisfaction of active older people: Advances (keys) in education perspective
- Case study on Chinese adult learners’ English acquisition in a blended learning environment
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2018
Volume 58, Number 1, April 2018
- Enabling learners starts with knowing them: Student attitudes, aspiration and anxiety towards science and maths learning in an Australian pre-university enabling program
- What should be considered when designing and developing a counselling course for adults from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds?
- Informal workplace learning experiences of graduate student employees
- Enhancing e-learning in old age
- Music learning for fun and wellbeing at any age!
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Volume 58, Number 1, April 2018
Volume 58, Number 2, July 2018
- Women, adult literacy education and transformative bonds of care
- Women and/or immigrants: A feminist reading on the marginalised adult learners in Korean lifelong learning policy and practice
- Transitioning from VET to HE in hospitality and tourism studies: VET grades as an indicator of performance in HE
- A new education pathway for postgraduate psychology students: Challenges and opportunities
- It pays to prepare: The value of low-stakes tutorial preparation exercises to student performance
- Critical reflection in the workplace and management competencies: In service of transformation?
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Volume 58, Number 2, July 2018
Volume 58, Number 3, November 2018
- Lifelong learning: An organising principle for reform
- University engagement in achieving sustainable development goals: A synthesis of case studies from the SUEUAA study
- The role of fairy tales in affective learning: Enhancing adult literacy and learning in FE and community settings
- Literacy, lifelong learning and sustainable development
- Achieving sustainable development goals through adult informal learning
- Learning across the lifespan: Lifelong learning in Neighbourhood Houses in Australia
- How a blended learning environment in adult education promotes sustainable development in China
- Achieving LLL with the Sustainable Development Goals: What is needed to get things done?
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2017
Volume 57, Number 1, April 2017
- Second chance learning in Neighbourhood Houses in Victoria
- Second chance education: barriers, supports and engagement strategies
- Insights into attrition from university-based enabling programs
- Just another student survey? – Point-of-contact survey feedback enhances the student experience and lets researchers gather data
- Integrated non-formal education and training programs and centre linkages for adult employment in South Africa
- On the borders of Pedagogy: Implementing a critical pedagogy for students on the Thai Burma Border
- Analysis of an organisation: U3A Mornington, Victoria
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Volume 57, Number 1, April 2017
Volume 57, Number 2, July 2017
- Bringing together learning from two worlds: Lessons from a gender-inclusive community education approach with smallholder farmers in Papua New Guinea
- ‘The trails to get there’: Experiences of attaining higher education for Igorot Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines
- Adult offenders’ perceptions of rehabilitation programs in Africa
- Experiences of bridging program students at a regional satellite campus
- Gender differences in online participation: Examining a History and a Mathematics Open Foundation online course
- A reflection on continuing professional education research
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Volume 57, Number 2, July 2017
Volume 57, Number 3, November 2017
- How the Men’s Shed idea travels to Scandinavia
- Lifelong learning in policy and practice: The case of Sweden
- Opportunities for generatively in later life for older men
- The engagement of universities in older adult education in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Constructing narratives in later life: Autoethnography beyond the academy
- Intergenerational exchange of knowledge, skills, values and practices between self-organised active citizens in Maribor, Slovenia
- Ageing and learning experiences: The perspective of a Polish senior immigrant in Sweden
- Fifty years of learning by older adults in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Learning for older adults in Portugal: Universities of the Third Age in a state of change
- Learning to live with chronic illness in later life: Empowering myself
- Occupational and educational biographies of older workers and their participation in further education in Germany
- Mā te ora ka mōhio / ‘Through life there is learning’
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2016
Volume 56, Number 1, April 2016
- Opening the learning process: the potential role of film in teaching employment relations
- A survey on the influence of titles on the visitor’s interpretation and learning in art galleries: An Iranian context
- Learning to swim using video modelling and video feedback within a self-management program
- Unlocking the potential within: A preliminary study of individual and community outcomes from a university enabling program in regional Australia
- University-based enabling program outcomes: comparing distance education and internal study
- Formative reflections of university recreation science students in South Africa as catalyst for an adapted service-learning program
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Volume 56, Number 1, April 2016
Volume 56, Number 2, July 2016
- Opportunity through online learning: Experiences of first-in-family students in online open-entry higher education
- University transition challenges for first year domestic CALD students from refugee backgrounds: a case study from an Australian regional university
- OnTrack to university: Understanding mechanisms of student retention in an Australian pre-university enabling program
- Staying Power: The effect of pathway into university on student achievement and attrition
- The juxtaposition of STEPS to the undergraduate arena: The lived experience of transitioning into undergraduate study
- Transformative learning challenges in a context of trauma and fear: An educator’s story
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Volume 56, Number 2, July 2016
Volume 56, Number 3, November 2016
- A farmer becomes a social pedagogue: A psycho-societal approach
- The meanings of learning as described by Polish migrant bloggers
- Emotional highs in adult experiential learning
- Contemporary constructivist practices in higher education settings and academic motivational factors
- Group work oral participation: Examining Korean students’ adjustment process in a US university
- Reasons for the slow completion of Masters and Doctoral degrees by adult learners in a South African township
- Is society capable of learning?Beyond a metaphysical foundation
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2015
Volume 55, Number 1, April 2015
- Putting transformative learning theory into practice
- Self-advocacy and its impacts for adults with developmental disabilities
- Connecting in rhizomic spaces: Peer-assisted learning (PAL) and e-learning in teacher education
- Targeting assessment for developing adult lifelong learners: Assessing the ability to commit
- The quest for authenticity: A study of an online discussion forum and the needs of adult learners
- Epistemological development and critical thinking in post-secondary
- 1974–1976: The seeds of longevity in a pathway to tertiary participation at University of Newcastle, NSW
- Learning cities on the move
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Volume 55, Number 1, April 2015
Volume 55, Number 2, July 2015
- Developing and using green skills for the transition to a low carbon economy
- Adult education and radical habitus in an environmental campaign: Learning in the coal seam gas protests in Australia
- Assessing the Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign: A developmental evaluation
- What are the key ingredients for an effective and successful tertiary enabling program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students? An evaluation of the evolution of one program
- Listening to hear: Critical allies in Indigenous Studies
- Work-based researchers and Communities of Practice: Conceptual and gestational dilemmas
- Motivating and enabling adult learners to develop research skills
- The meaning of learning on the Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage
- Book Review: Men learning through life, by Barry Golding, Rob Mark and Annette Foley (Eds.)
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Volume 55, Number 2, July 2015
Volume 55, Number 3, November 2015
- A space for memory
- Memories in Motion
- Visual Communication Design as a form of public pedagogy
- Reaching for the arts in unexpected places: public pedagogy in the gardens
- Protest music as adult education and learning for social change: a theorisation of a public pedagogy of protest music
- “Come in and look around.” Professional development of student teachers through public pedagogy in a library exhibition
- Older adult education: new public pedagogy in 21st century Taiwan
- Literacy mediation in neighbourhood houses
- Remaking education from below: the Chilean student movement as public pedagogy
- Book Review: Problematizing Public Pedagogy by Jake Burdick, Jennifer A. Sandlin and Michael P. O’Malley (Eds.)
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2014
Volume 54 / Number 1 / April 2014
- What’s politics got to do with it? ‘Power’ as a ‘threshold’ concept for undergraduate business students
- Learning and leadership: Evaluation of an Australian rural leadership program
- Willing and enabled: The academic outcomes of a tertiary enabling program in regional Australia
- The use of peer assessment in a regional Australian university tertiary bridging course
- Case studies in e-RPL and e-PR
- Improving the quality of student experience in large lectures using quick polls
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Volume 54, Issue 1, March 2014
Volume 54 / Number 2 / July 2014
- Diversity and achievement: Is success in higher education a transformative experience?
- How a personal development program enhances social connection and mobilises women in the community
- Teacher professional learning communities: Going beyond contrived collegiality toward challenging debate and collegial learning and professional growth
- Expectations and reality: What you want is not always what you get
- Identifying tertiary bridging students at risk of failure in the first semester of undergraduate study
- Educational biographies in Germany: From secondary school general education to lifelong learning?
- Do actions and methods in guidance for older workers exist in Spain?
- Book Review – Reflections on learning, life and work: Completing doctoral studies in mid and later life and career, Maureen Ryan (ed.), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2012
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Volume 54 / Number 3 / November 2014
- Continuous learning and its social organisation for engineers: An exploratory study in China
- Developing a qualifications structure for the finance services industry in Malaysia and beyond
- How can the expansion of the apprenticeship system in India create conditions for greater equity and social justice?
- Policy and barriers related to implementing adult e-learning in Taiwan
- Staying in a certain state of mind: becoming and being a freelance adult educator in Singapore
- Book review – Adult Education in Changing Times: Policies, philosophies and professionalism
- Book review – What did you learn at work today? The forbidden lessons of labor education
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2013
Volume 53, Issue 1, November 2013
- Recruiting and retaining learners in workplace literacy programs in New Zealand John Benseman
- Meeting diverse expectations: Department of Tutorial Classes, Sydney University, 1919 to 1963 Darryl Dymock and Ann Kelly
- ‘Trying to keep up’: The experience of combining full-time VET with work Michelle Morris
- Engaging in continuing education and training: Learning preferences of worker-learners in the health and community services industry Sarojni Choy, Stephen Billett and Ann Kelly
- Time, money, leisure and guilt – the gendered challenges of higher education for mature-age students Cathy Stone and Sarah O’Shea
- The ‘double-edged sword’ of the adult learning environment Sara Murray and Jane Mitchell
- Learning and guidance for older workers in Europe Pamela M. Clayton, Silvana Greco and Maria Jose Lopez Sanchez
- The twenty-first century university and the concept of lifelong learning Sasa Milic
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Volume 53, Issue 1, April 2013
Volume 53, Issue 2, November 2013
- Using grass roots community programs as an anti-extremism strategy Robyn Broadbent
- A learner perspective on barriers to e-learning Karen Becker, Cameron Newton, and Sukanlaya Sawang
- Effectively teaching diverse student groups: a reflection on teaching and learning strategies Kathryn Trees
- Humanities education as a pathway for women in regional and rural Australia: Clemente Ballarat Ann Gervasoni, Jeremy Smith, and Peter Howard
- Predictors of attrition and achievement in a tertiary bridging program Robert Whannell
- A case study of a volunteer-based literacy class with adults with developmental disabilities Jacqueline Lynch
- Abridged too far? Credit transfer: Examining the transition process from TAFE to University Theresa Millman
- Outside the box: The Danish Folkehojskole as educational innovator John Collins
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Volume 53, Issue 3, November 2013
- Older undergraduate students bringing years of experience to university studies: Highlights, challenges and contributions
- Ready for action and civic engagement: Resilient third age women learners in rural Australia
- Learning a new lifestyle
- Literacy strategies used by adults with intellectual disability in negotiating their everyday community environments
- Tertiary study: Barriers and benefits for health and human services professionals
- Exploring how short-term overseas study programs impact students’ personal growth
- The WEA in Australia 1913 – 2013
- Adult Education Conferences in 2013
- Book review – Popular education, power and democracy: Swedish experiences and contributions, Ann-Marie Laginder, Henrik Nordvall and Jim Crowther (eds.), NIACE: Leicester 2013.
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2012
Volume 52, Issue 1, November 2012
- Teaching practice in the making: Shaping and reshaping the field of adult language, literacy and numeracy teaching
- Investigating the influence of a teacher on academic self-efficacy and study behaviour of students in a tertiary bridging program
- Educational and cultural challenges of bicultural adult immigrant and refugee students in Australia
- Diabetes literacy: Health and adult literacy practitioners in partnership
- Cultural codes as catalysts for collective conscientisation in environmental adult education: Mr. Floatie, tree squatting and save-our-surfers
- Mathematics funds of knowledge: Sotmaute and Sermaute fish in a Torres Strait Islander community
- Knowledge management systems and open innovation in second tier UK universities
- Adult language, literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills in the workplace
- The adult learner may really be a neglected species
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Volume 52, Issue 1, April 2012
Volume 52, Issue 2, July 2012
- Exploring relationships in education: A phenomenological inquiry
- Popular education in times of societal transformation—A Swedish perspective
- Mid-career extension graduates’ perceptions of the impact of a demand-driven extension curriculum in Ghana
- The interrelatedness of formal, non-formal and informal learning: Evidence from labour market program participants
- Adults engaged in lifelong learning in Taiwan: Analysis by gender and socioeconomic status
- Lifelong learning in German learning cities/regions
- Learning cities as healthy green cities: Building sustainable opportunity cities
- Living and learning in EcCoWell cities
- Flexible models for learning English are needed for refugee mothers
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Volume 52, Issue 3, April 2012
- Introduction: Why food? Why pedagogy? Why adult education?
- School food and the pedagogies of parenting
- Throw your napkin on the floor: Authenticity, culinary tourism, and a pedagogy of the senses
- A critical race and class analysis of learning in the organic farming movement
- Food pedagogies in Japan: From the implementation of the Basic Law on Food Education to Fukushima
- Pedagogies of doing good: Problematisations, authorities, technologies and teleologies in food activism
- Educational alternatives in food production, knowledge and consumption: The public pedagogies of Growing Power and Tsyunhehkw
- When traditions become innovations and innovations become traditions in everyday food pedagogies
- ‘Savoir fare’: Are cooking skills a new morality?
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2011
Volume 51, Issue 1, April 2011
- International vocational education and training—The migration and learning mix
- Occupational mobility in Queensland’s Aged Care, Automotive and Civil Construction sectors
- The role of cultural structure in continuing vocational training: A study on auto repairmen in Turkey
- Visy Cares Hub—A partnership in community learning
- ‘I feel like I’m being hit from all directions’: Enduring the bombardment as a mature age learner returning to formal learning
- Secondary level re-entry of young adult learners: A case study
- Older adults’ training courses: Considerations for course design and the development of learning materials
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Volume 51, Issue 1, April 2011
Volume 51, Issue 2, April 2011
- Centres ‘Down Under’: Mapping Australia’s neighbourhood centres and learning
- Leisure activities as a source of informal learning for older people: The role of community-based organisations
- Learning in social action: The informal and social learning dimensions of circumstantial and lifelong activists
- The educative role of a regional newspaper: Learning to be drier
- Corporate sector practice informs online workforce training for Australian government agencies: Towards effective educational‑learning systems design
- Friendship and relationships in virtual and intercultural learning: Internationalising the business curriculum
- Informal learning in the workplace: A review of the literature
- Brothers Inside: Fathering workshops with Aboriginal prisoners
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Volume 51, Issue 3, April 2011
- Adults’ participation in informal learning activities: Key findings from the adult education participation survey in Taiwan
- Role reversal: Educators in an enabling program embark on a journey of critical self-reflection
- Promoting literacy for adults with intellectual disabilities in a community-based service organisation
- Utopian scenario sketching: An imaginal pedagogy for life giving civilisation
- Learning to manage: Transformative outcomes of competency based training
- Learning about health
- Time and meaning in later-life learning
- Principles and practices of mature age education at U3As
- Barriers to adult learning: Bridging the gap
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Volume 51, Issue 3, November 2011
Volume 51, Issue 4, April 2011
- Through the looking glass: adult education through the lens of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning over fifty years
- All over, red rover? The neglect and potential of Australian adult education in the community
- Authenticity through reflexivity: connecting teaching philosophy and practice
- Recognition of prior learning (RPL): can intersubjectivity and philosophy of recognition support better equity outcomes?
- Scheherazade’s secret: the power of stories and the desire to learn
- Communities of practice in a voluntary youth organisation: reaching for the sky and building social capital
- Launching a career or reflecting on life? Reasons, issues and outcomes for candidates undertaking PhD studies mid-career or after retirement compared to the traditional early career pathway
- The learning projects of rural third age women: enriching a valuable community resource
- Is the use of video conferencing and supporting technologies a feasible and viable way to woo farmers back into farmer education?
- Arnold Hely and Australian adult education
- Art, disability, learning and the dance of my life
- Looking forward: Community Gateways at Victoria University
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2010
Volume 50, Issue 1, November 2010
- The learning society: Two justifications
- Diverse pathways into higher education: Using students’ stories to identify transformative experiences
- The big picture on men’s (and boys’) learning
- Taking risks—Experiential learning and the writing student
- Recognition of prior learning—Normative assessment or co-construction of preferred identities?
- Training and development for transitional employment in mature aged manual workers
- Effective employment-based training models for childcare workers
- Becoming an Australian citizen: Some dimensions of assessing a citizenship-type literacy amongst adults
- The powerful and the powerless: Unwritten rules
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Volume 50, Issue 1, April 2010
Volume 50, Issue 2, November 2010
- Adult learning in educational tourism
- Shall we dance? The story of the Radiance Dance Project
- Literacy practitioners’ perspectives on adult learning needs and technology approaches in Indigenous communities
- Pathway for student self-development: A learning orientated internship approach
- Using appreciative inquiry to explore the professional practice of a lecturer in higher education: Moving towards life-centric practice
- Approaches to the postgraduate education of business coaches
- Challenges in aligning workplace learning with business goals: A perspective from HRD professionals in New Zealand
- Formal and informal learning opportunities in government organisations: Experiences of public sector employees from six Asian nations
- Study circles and the dialogue to change program
- Training, OD, L&D, HRD—What’s in a name?
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Volume 50, Issue 3, November 2010
- Skilling Australians: lessons from World War II national workforce development programs
- Teaching adult education history in a time of uncertainty and hope
- Diversity and excellence: prompts from the history of the tertiary education sector
- Recollections on the Association over five decades
- Agenda for a national association
- Agenda for a national association … 50 years on
- The international importance of a national association
- National and international associations … 50 years on
- An experiment in method
- Significant adult education artefacts
- Journal objectives over 50 years