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New special edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
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 […]
New edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
Take a look inside the April edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning. 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 […]
New Special Edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
Take a look inside the November Special Edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning. 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 Literacies and learning: An exploration into women’s digital literacy practices and sustainable livelihoods […]
New Edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
Take a look inside the April Edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning. Volume 64, Number 1, April 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 […]
New Edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
Take a look inside the April Edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning. 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 Recognising the Budj Bim cultural landscape as World Heritage: How a socio-material approach bridged the tangible-intangible heritage […]
New Special Edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
Take a look inside the Special Edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning. 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 […]
Online forum: Adult learning education on climate justice
Context In recent years, the importance of adult learning education focused on climate justice has gained momentum in Australia and the world. In Australia, we have seen the impact of climate disruption with more frequent catastrophic weather events such as floods and fires contributing to the displacement of people from housing and local communities and […]
New issue of Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
Take a look inside the latest Australian Journal of Adult Learning. 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 […]
New issue of Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
Take a look inside the latest Australian Journal of Adult Learning. 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 learningKatarína Rozvadská […]
New issue of Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
This issue of AJAL is focused on three important areas of adult learning, professional learning, transition pathways to higher education and adult learning in the context of COVID 19. The articles represent the broad context of adult learning in Australia and internationally. In this edition, articles inform us on professional learning in policing and help […]
New issue of Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
The April edition of the journal has both a national and international focus. The articles are written on some important adult education issues of our time such as therapeutic landscape learning after the COVID 19 pandemic; professional learning in police education; lifelong learning and adult education in Japan; second chance learning in Africa; and adult […]
Special edition of Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
Freire’s life and work It is the centenary of Paulo Freire’s birth and over fifty years since the publication of his most famous work Pedagogy of the Oppressed in English. In this Special Edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning (AJAL) we want to mark his extraordinary contribution as an educator, thinker and activist […]
New issue of Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
The latest issue of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning (AJAL) has been written at a time when we find ourselves living in the second year of a global pandemic, which has changed the nature of how we live, work and learn in Australia and the rest of the world. Volume 61, Number 2, July […]
New issue of Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
In the first edition of 2021, we have a diverse range of articles representing adult learning in higher education, adult education and its capacity to prevent poverty, and an article on older adult learning. Volume 61, Number 1, April 2021 Psychological distress among students in enabling education Johanna Nieuwoudt Try before you buy: Using enabling […]
Special issue of Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!
Volume 60, Number 3, November 2020 Getting serious: The national ‘vision splendid’ for adult education 60 years onBarry Golding Educating Australian adults in an era of social and economic changeStephen Billet & Darryl Dymock Esmonde Higgins and the lost history of Australian adult education Bob Boughton Sixty years of adult learning in Aotearoa New Zealand: […]