Men's sheds in Australia : Learning through community contexts

Title: Men's sheds in Australia : Learning through community contexts
Creator: Golding, Barry; Brown, Michael; Foley, Annette; Harvey, Jack; Gleeson, Lynne
Date: 2007
Type: Text; Book
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/42994
Identifier: vital:1119
Identifier: ISBN:9781921170263
Abstract: ‘Men’s sheds’ organisations are typically located in shed or workshop-type spaces in community settings that provide opportunities for regular hands-on activity by groups deliberately and mainly comprising men. Men’s sheds in community organisations are shown to be a relatively new, diverse and poorly known set of community-based, grass-roots organisations—found only in Australia. These informal spaces and programs in community settings have grown recently and rapidly in parts of mainly southern Australia with a higher proportion of older men not in paid work. Men’s sheds are typically organised by, and legally constituted through, existing community organisations. They usually provide a woodworking workshop space, tools and equipment and an adjacent social area in a public, shed-type setting. Some include a metalwork area and/or an adjacent garden.
Publisher: Adelaide, SA NCVER
Rights: Open Access
Rights: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Men's sheds; Older men; Practical learning
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