Men’s learning and wellbeing through community organisations in Western Australia
- Authors: Golding, Barry , Brown, Michael , Foley, Annette , Harvey, Jack
- Date: 2009
- Type: Report
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- Description: Report to the Western Australia Department of Education & Training
Senior men’s learning and wellbeing through community participation in Australia
- Authors: Golding, Barry , Foley, Annette , Brown, Michael , Harvey, Jack
- Date: 2009
- Type: Report
- Full Text:
- Description: Report to the National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre.
Men's sheds in Australia : Learning through community contexts
- Authors: Golding, Barry , Brown, Michael , Foley, Annette , Harvey, Jack , Gleeson, Lynne
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Book
- Full Text:
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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