Men and boys: Ages and stages
- Authors: Foley, Annette , Golding, Barry
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Men learning through life Chapter 7 p. 97-112
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Men's learning in Australia
- Authors: Foley, Annette , Golding, Barry
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Men Learning Through Life Chapter Fourteen p. 205-225
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- Description: Men’s learning, wellbeing and health remained relatively un-problema-tised in Australia until a decade ago. Women have previously (for good reasons) been identified as an equity target group in many areas of edu-cation and health, though this picture is changing. Work in Australia in many sectors of education and health services remains comprehensively gendered. Adult and community education in Australia is attempting to re-invent itself in the wake of two national reports in the 1990s alluding to it as a primarily women’s (Cinderella) sector (Aulich, 1991; Crowley, 1997). New research has identified the difficult situation experienced beyond education and work for men. Australia’s national health policy highlights concerning statistics in relation to some men’s broader health and wellbeing in Australia. Particular groups of men are at risk through effective exclusion from (or opting out of) existing education and health programmes and services, particularly some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) men, older men, men living in rural areas as well as men who have had limited success at school. "From introduction"
Men's shed research evidence since 2014
- Authors: Foley, Annette , Golding, Barry
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Shoulder to shoulder : broadening the men's shed movement Chapter 11 p. 355-394
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Older men's lifelong learning : Common threads/sheds
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Researching transitions in lifelong learning Chapter 6 p. 65-75
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- Description: This chapter is based on a suite of completed research in Australia into informal learning by older men (age over 45) in community contexts that forms the first part of an international comparative study of men’s informal learning. A number of research projects since 2002 in rural and remote Australian communities sought to look beyond what are conventionally regarded as education providers and to examine closely whether and what learning takes place informally by men, particularly by older men, who participate in community-based organisations.
- Description: 2003007969
Who's doing the hunting and gathering? An exploration of gender segmentation of adult learning in small remote communities
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Equity in Vocational Education and Training: Research reading Chapter 17 p. 225-241
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- Description: Adults in Australia have tended to return relatively recently to learning in patterns that are significantly different by gender. These patterns of gender segmentation for adults are particularly noticeable in the findings of recent research by the author into adult, community and vocational learning in small and remote towns in Victoria. The issues associated with such patterns form the basis of this exploratory paper.
- Description: B1
- Description: 2003000772
Men's learning in small remote towns in Australia
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Lifelong Learning, Participation and Equity Chapter 16 p. 175-203
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- Description: B1
- Description: 2003007641
- Description: 2003002084
Inequity in Australian vocational education training by location
- Authors: Golding, Barry , Pattison, Sandra
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Equity in Vocational Education and Training: Research Reading Chapter 17 p. 108-119
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- Description: B1
- Description: 2003000763
Men's sheds, community learning and public policy
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Gender, masculinities, and lifelong learning p. 122-133
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Men's learning through community organisations: Evidence from an Australian study
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Gender, masculinities, and lifelong learning p. 134-146
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- Description: This chapter draws on findings from research focused on learning that occurs for men in diverse community organizations rather than in dedicated educational settings. It provides evidence of the benefits for men of learning over the life course, as the relevance and availability of more formal options for learning in educational settings decrease. It seeks to broaden the discussion about learning in ways that are inclusive of perspectives other than those about learning for work, but which look specifically at men's interests, needs and pedagogies in community contexts..."From introduction"
Men's informal learning and wellbeing beyond the workplace
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Innovations in lifelong learning p. 67-86
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- Description: This book opens up ways to engage critically with what counts as innovatory practice in lifelong learning today, locating its discussion of innovations in lifelong learning within an international and comparative framework. Innovations in Lifelong Learningengages first hand with issues and concerns from around the globe, offering an international perspective on current trends through its range of contributions from across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the US. The broad focus allows for diverse information on the nature of these changes to come together under an assortment of empirical, theoretical and methodological approaches. The book takes three key elements of lifelong learning: learning communities participation and non-participation work-based learning and learning through work. It links these with themes on diversity, social justice and economic and global development so as to negotiate and re-negotiate the constant importance of innovation with employers, learners and educational institutions. All those working in the broad arena of lifelong learning will benefit from this comprehensive examination of current debates in the field, including policy-makers, researchers, teachers, lecturers, educational managers and employers engaged with work-based learning.
Learning beyond the workplace
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Men learning through life Chapter Six p. 77-96
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- Description: 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
Older men’s learning and conviviality
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Learning Across Generations in Europe: Contemporary Issues in Older Adult Education Chapter 3 p. 23-24
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- Description: The theoretical insights I bring to build the case come from reflections on empirical research in ten very diverse nations, presented both in Men learning through life (Golding et al., 2014), as well as from Older men learning in the community: European snapshots (Radovan & Krasovec, 2014).
Community men’s sheds and informal learning: An exploration of their gendered roles
- Authors: Golding, Barry , Carragher, Lucia
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Private World(s): Gender and Informal Learning of Adults Chapter 8 p. 103-118
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- Description: Our general intention in this chapter is to explore some of the gendered aspects of learning that have been recognised through the creation of the community men’s sheds movement during the past decade in four countries
Men learning through life
- Authors: Golding, Barry , Mark, Rob , Foley, Annette
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Men learning through life Chapter 1 p. 3-17
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- Description: This introductory chapter seeks, through a broad-brush analysis of a wide range of international research and data, to provide context for our book. It consists of four sections. The first sets the broad intentions and the main source of information for the two parts of our book that follow, including some limitations. The second section seeks to make explicit our interest in focusing mainly on men, particularly those men beyond paid work. The third section teases out some of our theoretical presuppositions about the process, purposes and value of learning that men experience. The fourth explains our reasons for overtly including and emphasising the seldom-theorised link between men’s learning and wellbeing. In its totality, this introductory chapter provides an outline of our equity and evidence-based case for acknowledging worldwide changes and trends that have made this book timely, particularly for men not in paid work, including a ‘big picture’ view of men learning through life in international settings. It begins to delineate a range of social and economic factors, including the global financial crisis and population ageing, that have led to an increase in the proportion of men not in paid work in most developed nations. This increase has been accompanied by a decrease in many nations in the proportion of young men completing post-school qualifications
Men's sheds: A New movement for change
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Men learning through life Chapter Eight p. 113-130
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Men's turn to learn? Discussion and Conclusion
- Authors: Golding, Barry , Mark, Rob , Foley, Annette
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Men Learning through life Chapter Sixteen p. 244-259
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- Description: Our intention in this final chapter is to argue a case for repositioning men’s learning at any age as a significant benefit not only for the men involved, but also for their families and the community, aside from the narrowly defined vocational benefits which lifelong learning policies often focus on. We seek to identify some generalisable conclusions based on the data and literature examined in the first part of this book and the national research policies and practices identified in the second part. The chapter consists of a discussion, comprising a number of important acknowledgments about the extensive theoretical and practical ground our book has covered. This is followed by a number of broad and over-arching conclusions
Australia
- Authors: Golding, Barry , Kimberley, Helen
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: International perspectives on older adult education Chapter 3 p. 25-34
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- Description: In the later years of life in Australia, after commitment to paid work or family responsibilities declines as life’s primary motivating factors, learning occupies a different life space and purpose from learning in previous life stages. While learning to cope with the expected and unexpected events in later life is known from research elsewhere to be increasingly important (Cooper et al. 2010; Schuller and Watson 2009), the opportunities and places in Australia to learn formally and informally have been decreasing (Golding and Foley 2011). Our chapter argues that spaces for and purposes of older adult learning are less reflected upon, both by older adults themselves, by the wider Australian society and particularly by policy makers and governments in Australia. The prevailing discourse is more about costs of caring than opportunities during ageing. "From chapter"
Men's sheds elsewhere
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Shoulder to shoulder : broadening the men's shed movement Chapter 9 p. 309-318
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Men's sheds in Canada
- Authors: Golding, Barry , Mackenzie, Corey
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Shoulder to shoulder : broadening the men's shed movement Chapter 7 p. 271-292
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Broadening the men's shed movement
- Authors: Golding, Barry
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Shoulder to shoulder : broadening the men's shed movement, Chapter 12, p. 395-418
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