[Sonia David]

Dear All, 

Call for Papers | Special Issue | Journal of Adult and Continuing Education (SAGE)

Special Issue: "Trauma-Informed and Inclusive Frameworks in Adult and Continuing Education: Pedagogies, Institutions, and Lifelong Learning Futures"

About the Issue:
Adult learners today navigate education amidst complex realities shaped by trauma, displacement, inequality, migration, digital transformation, caregiving responsibilities, and social change. This Special Issue seeks to advance interdisciplinary scholarship exploring how trauma-informed and inclusive approaches can transform adult and continuing education across higher education, community, workplace, and lifelong learning contexts.

We welcome empirical, theoretical, conceptual, review, and practice-based contributions from scholars and practitioners worldwide. We are particularly keen to receive submissions that foreground diverse perspectives and experiences from the Global South and other underrepresented contexts.

Full Call for Abstracts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14Ue8oegRNOW7-ZY_hxP1i4FSx9-yezt7/view?usp=sharing

Indicative themes include:

🔹 Trauma-informed pedagogies and learner support
🔹 Inclusion, equity, and intersectionality in adult education
🔹 Institutional leadership, policy, and organisational culture
🔹 Community, workplace, and lifelong learning
🔹 Collective and structural dimensions of trauma
🔹 Transformative, decolonial, and justice-oriented pedagogies
🔹 Digital learning, AI, accessibility, and learner wellbeing

📅 Abstract Deadline: 30 September 2026 (300–500 words in APA format)
Selected authors will be invited to submit full manuscripts for peer review in the Journal of Adult and Continuing Education.

Author guidelines are found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ADU

For abstract submissions and enquiries, please reach out to: trauma.info...@gmail.com

We warmly encourage researchers, educators, practitioners, policymakers, and community-based scholars from across disciplines to contribute to this timely conversation on building more equitable, trauma-responsive, and inclusive futures for adult and continuing education.

Please share this Call for Papers with colleagues and networks who may be interested.

Thank you so much

Regards, 

Dr. Sonia David
PhD Psychology
Psychotherapist and Educator
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