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Firstly, it asks what was the context for establishing a national adult learning association, Australian Association of Adult Education (AAAE) in 1960, renamed the Australian Association for Adult and Community Education (AACE) in 1989, and Adult Learning Australia (ALA) in 1998? Secondly, it asks how the association, the research in its journalsand the field of adult education adapted to the rapidly changing context, opportunities and needs for lifelong learning in Australia? In doing so, the paper critically examines evidence of ongoing tensionsand difficulties delivering onALA’s 2020 vision of‘lifelong and lifewide learning for all Australians’. It also asks what the current situation is for Australian adult education, and what possible new courses for the future ALA andAJAL might take. The first two research questions are addressed in the body of this paper. The third question is addressed primarily within the Discussion.  \n366 Barry Golding  \nKeywords: adult education, national association, history, Adult Learning Australia, journal  \nIntroduction  \nDuncan (1944) wrote about a national ‘vision splendid’ for adult education in Australia almost 80 years ago. The four quotations, below, each separated by approximately 20 years (written in 1944, 1965, 1991 & 2009), raise questions about what has happened to this vision since the Australian Association of Adult Education (AAAE), was formed in 1960, as well as where it might go hence.  \nR. B. Madgwick, then Director of the Australian Army Education Service at the University of Sydney, later to become the first President of AAAEin 1960, wrote in 1944 that:  \nWe must never go back to adult education as we knew it. In the past, adult education was a thing of shreds and patches.  \nWe did a little here …we did a little there …But when we look at it dispassionately, it is clear that we only lived from hand to mouth.–and … the hand when it reached the mouth was usually empty, anyway. (in Duncan, 1944, pp.25-26).  \nThese same words written 75 years ago, along with those that follow written 45 years ago, could have similar applicability in 2020.  \nAdult Education is regarded as a marginal activity stuck onto to our education system somewhere between our leaving primary school and going senile; we have to run it with meagre budgets, leftover facilities and other people’s spare time.…In spite of the …growth of adult education there has been little enough research into adult education …and very little investigation of the most basic component, the adult student himself [sic.](Hanna, 1965, p.3).  \nPerhaps the closest Australia came to achieving Duncan’s (1944) vision was almost 30 years ago, when the ‘Come in Cinderella’ Senate (1991, p.160) report concluded that:  \nA commitment to a ‘clever country’ and ‘lifelong learning for all’  \nGetting serious: The national 'vision splendid' for adult education 60 years on 367  \nrequires a willingness to embrace a larger vision of how people get their education and training in Australia. If we as a nation are to get serious about economic and social justice goals we need to get serious about adult education.  \nHolmes (2009, p.1) summed up frustration around Duncan’s still unrealised national vision a decade ago.  \nAfter several decades, the merits and necessity for lifelong learning have been dutifully intoned by policy makers and elsewhere. In practice, and sadly more so in Australia than in many comparable countries, the pursuit of lifelong learning has been honoured more by the breach than the observance.  \nEach of these statements highlight tha","cbCaig8FrcuJn7Ua","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaig8FrcuJn7Ua","pdf",317509,34,"English","# Introduction\n# Method","[{\"question\":\"What does the paper investigate about adult education in Australia?\",\"answer\":\"It explores the context for establishing national adult learning associations, how the field and its journals adapted to changing needs, and what the current situation is for adult education in Australia.\"},{\"question\":\"Which research method does the paper use?\",\"answer\":\"It compiles back issues across multiple journal titles and codes selected AJAL articles using a thematic and quantitative code frame.\"},{\"question\":\"What tensions does the paper focus on regarding the 2020 vision?\",\"answer\":\"It critically examines difficulties and ongoing tensions in delivering ALA’s 2020 goal of lifelong and lifewide learning for all Australians.\"}]","Australian Journal of Adult Learning - Volume 60 - Number 3 - November 2020 | PDF",1792076180,86]