- Title
- Men's sheds in Australia : Learning through community contexts
- Creator
- Golding, Barry; Brown, Michael; Foley, Annette; Harvey, Jack; Gleeson, Lynne
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- Text; Book
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/42994
- Identifier
- vital:1119
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781921170263
- Abstract
- ‘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.
- Publisher
- Adelaide, SA NCVER
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Men's sheds; Older men; Practical learning
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