Australian Journal of Adult Learning


Volume 48, Number 3, November 2008


Contents in AJAL


Editors' desks

Roger Harris


Refereed articles


Professional development for professionals: beyond sufficiency learning

Gerald A. Murphy & Bruce A. Calway


Succession planning: does it matter in the context of corporate leadership?

Patricia Richards


An appreciative inquiry into the transformative learning experiences of students in a family literacy project

David Giles & Sharon Alderson


Promoting social inclusion: emerging evidence from the Catalyst-Clemente program

Peter Howard, Tim Marchant, Anne Hampshire, Jude Butcher, Luke Egan & Katrina Bredhauer


Diverse pleasures: informal learning in community

Phoenix de Carteret


Faces in tertiary places and spaces: experiences of learning in both higher education and VET

Roger Harris



Practice articles


The role of the University of the Third Age in meeting needs of adult learners in Victoria, Australia

Lydia Hebestreit



Book reviews

Peter Willis


Jacques Lacan and education: a critical introduction (Roseboro)

Steven Hodge


Green frontiers: environmental educators dancing away from mechanism (Gray-Donald & Selby, editors)

John Cameron


Putting people in the picture: visual methodologies for social change (de Lange, Mitchell & Stuart, editors)

Bruce Fell


Using biographical and life history approaches in the study of adult and lifelong learning: European perspectives (West, Alheit, Andersen & Merrill, editors)

Alex Nelson


A people learning. Colonial Victorians and their public museums, 1860–1880 (Fennessy)

Barrie Brennan


Inside intuition (Sadler-Smith)

Errol Lawson