- Title
- Houses and sheds in Australia : an exploration of the genesis and growth of neighbourhood houses and men's sheds in community settings
- Creator
- Golding, Barry; Kimberley, Helen; Foley, Annette; Brown, Michael
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/40922
- Identifier
- vital:336
- Identifier
- ISSN:1443-1394
- Abstract
- This article reviews research into the genesis and spread of both neighbourhood houses and learning centres in Victoria and community-based men's sheds in Australia to identify some similarities and differences. Our article asks questions about the gendered communities of practice that underpin houses for women on the one hand, and sheds for men on the other. Our particular interest is with the gender issues associated with the development of the relatively mature neighbourhood house 'sector', and those associated with the very recent and developing community-based men's sheds 'sector'. Our underpinning research question has to do with the desirability (or otherwise) in each of these sectors of political and strategic decisions being either gender specific or gender neutral. We identify a number of tantalising parallels between the rationale behind the establishment of both sectors,for women and men, albeit in very different circumstances, along with some obvious differences.; C1
- Publisher
- Adult Learning Australia Inc.
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Adult Learning Vol. 48, no. 2 (Jul 2008), p. 237-262
- Rights
- Copyright Adult Learning Australia Inc.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1301 Education Systems; Men; Sheds; Education; Rural
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