Shoulder to shoulder : broadening the men's shed movement
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book
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- Description: "Men's - and now Women's and Community - Sheds are meeting many people's acute, unmet needs arising, largely, out of a lack of paid work and retirement, and the void of meaninglessness that can arise as a result. Offering its readers an informative and insightful view of a growing grassroots movement, this timely book shows how the Shed movement, far from contracting, is nimbly and rapidly responding to the needs of communities during the global crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. From the humblest of beginnings in Australia, the movement today has evolved to total almost 3,000 Sheds worldwide"
The Men's Shed Movement : The company of men
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book
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- Description: Invented in Australia, the remarkable Men's Shed Movement has spread from the back blocks of Australia to reach a total of more than 1,400 Men's Sheds in diverse countries on opposite sides of the world. This book provides a fascinating, carefully evidenced and definitive story of Men's Sheds for the first time. It is a book and movement whose time has come. Many nations are struggling to meet the needs and interests of men beyond the workplace. Over two decades, the Men's Shed Movement has mushroomed from the ground up to become a strongly networked international movement, not only in Australia, but now in Ireland, the UK, New Zealand, continental Europe. How and why this has happened and what the evidence and research means for service providers, communities and the men in the Men's Sheds Movement is thoroughly explored. Lead author, Professor Barry Golding, Federation University Australia, is the respected world expert in the field, being a patron of the Australian Men's Shed Association and the winner of the coveted Ted Donnelly Award in 2013 for his "outstanding contribution to the Men's Shed Movement." (From back cover).
Creating learning spaces for refugees : The role of multicultural organisations in Australia
- Authors: Miralles-Lombardo, Beatriz , Miralles, Judith , Golding, Barry
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Book
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- Description: Through the experiences of refugees from Bosnia, Iraq and Sudan, this research sought to explore the role multicultural community organisations play in creating important informal networks and learning spaces that connect people from refugee backgrounds to the wider Australian community. In particular, the research sought to identify how such organisations assist refugees in their learning of English language and work skills.
- Description: 2003006698
Men's sheds in Australia : Learning through community contexts
- Authors: Golding, Barry , Brown, Michael , Foley, Annette , Harvey, Jack , Gleeson, Lynne
- Date: 2007
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- Description: ‘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.
- Description: 2003005525
Learning through indigenous business : The role of vocational education and training in indigenous enterprise and community development
- Authors: Flamsteed, Kate , Golding, Barry
- Date: 2005
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- Description: A1
- Description: 2003001326
Not exactly rocket science : Replicating good practice in meeting diverse client needs
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2005
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- Description: A1
- Description: 2003001325
Adult learning through fire and emergency service organisations in small and remote Australian towns
- Authors: Hayes, Christine , Golding, Barry , Harvey, Jack
- Date: 2004
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- Description: A1
- Description: 2003000775