Australian Journal of Adult Learning


Volume 49, Number 3, November 2009


Contents in AJAL


Editors' desks

Barry Golding, with Coral Campbell


Refereed articles


Learning to be drier in the southern Murray-Darling Basin: Setting the scene for this research volume

Barry Golding and Coral Campbell


Water, weeds and autumn leaves: learning to be drier in the Alpine region

Annette Foley and Lauri Grace


Bearing the risk: learning to be drier mid-river

Barry Golding and Jennifer Angwin


Learning to be drier: a case study of adult and community learning in the Australian Riverland

Mike Brown and Christine Schulz


Learning to be drier in dryland country

Erica Smith and Coral Campbell


Wicked learning: reflecting on Learning to be drier

Barry Golding, Mike Brown, Annette Foley, Erica Smith, Coral Campbell, Christine Schulz, Jennifer Angwin and Lauri Grace




Research papers


Investigating students’ beliefs about Arabic language programs at Kuwait University

Shaye S. Al-Shaye


Participation of elderly women in community welfare activities in Akinyele local government, Oyo State, Nigeria

Stella O. Odebode



Book reviews

Peter Willis


Emerging perspectives of workplace learning (eds. Billett, Harteis & Eteläpelto)

Tom Short


Adult education and training (ed. Athanasou)

Lisa Davies


Five DVDs (distributed by Video Education Australasia, Bendigo, Victoria)

Susan Coggan