- Title
- Men's learning in Australia
- Creator
- Foley, Annette; Golding, Barry
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/159720
- Identifier
- vital:12041
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781862018280
- Abstract
- Men’s learning, wellbeing and health remained relatively un-problema-tised in Australia until a decade ago. Women have previously (for good reasons) been identified as an equity target group in many areas of edu-cation and health, though this picture is changing. Work in Australia in many sectors of education and health services remains comprehensively gendered. Adult and community education in Australia is attempting to re-invent itself in the wake of two national reports in the 1990s alluding to it as a primarily women’s (Cinderella) sector (Aulich, 1991; Crowley, 1997). New research has identified the difficult situation experienced beyond education and work for men. Australia’s national health policy highlights concerning statistics in relation to some men’s broader health and wellbeing in Australia. Particular groups of men are at risk through effective exclusion from (or opting out of) existing education and health programmes and services, particularly some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) men, older men, men living in rural areas as well as men who have had limited success at school. "From introduction"
- Publisher
- NIACE
- Relation
- Men Learning Through Life Chapter Fourteen p. 205-225
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
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