Shedding ideas about older men's learning

Title: Shedding ideas about older men's learning
Creator: Golding, Barry
Date: 2011
Type: Text; Journal article
Identifier: http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/37834
Identifier: vital:4998
Identifier: ISSN:1239-6826
Abstract: Men, particularly older men, are largely missing as adult learners in Europe. The same problem persists on the opposite side of the globe. In Australia older men have many learning needs, yet are put off by explicit attempts to include them in learning. In this article Australian researcher Barry Golding presents a working solution to getting older men into learning. In community-run 'men's sheds' men engage in hands-on activities such as woodwork. At the same time they develop their identities as men and with men and learn to stay healthy in settings beyond work. The learning and wellbeing benefits work best for men if the activities and the outcomes are not named or fore-grounded. Now men's sheds practices are spreading also to European countries, assuming local forms and themes.
Relation: Lifelong learning in Europe Vol. 16, no. 2 (2011), p. 119-124
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Subject: 1301 Education Systems; Lifelong learning; Gender; Adult and community education; Teaching and learning; Self development; Community education
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