- Title
- Learning beyond the workplace
- Creator
- Golding, Barry
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/159736
- Identifier
- vital:12043
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781862018297
- Abstract
- This chapter identifies a wide range of learning contexts where research has shown that the pedagogies are inclusive of men and enhance men’s wellbeing. This includes informal community contexts that are seldom seriously considered as learning environments. It is not concerned with the workplace or vocational preparation undertaken through formal education providers. It includes a consideration of men’s learning inten-tions and outcomes that are rarely considered in mainstream formal edu-cational research. These include learning through sporting organisations, fire and emergency service organisations, men’s special interest organisa-tions, age-related organisation as well as religious, ethnic, Indigenous and cultural organisations. The chapter also discusses the characteristics that make these spaces attractive to men. These spaces beyond the workplace are often discounted in contemporary education and training research, and are notably absent in policies and other discourses about men. The chapter also examines how common (and different) places and spaces in diverse national contexts affect and enhance men’s attitudes to learning. While men’s sheds in community settings are given as one example, a fuller analysis of their implications for men’s learning and wellbeing is provided in Chapter Eight
- Publisher
- NIACE
- Relation
- Men learning through life Chapter Six p. 77-96
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Adult education; Continuing education
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