- Title
- Let the men speak : Health, friendship, community and shed therapy
- Creator
- Foley, Annette; Golding, Barry; Brown, Michael
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/59005
- Identifier
- vital:2529
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-0-9805275-0-6
- Abstract
- Our paper is based on our recently published NCVER project on Men's sheds in Australia, Learning through Community Contexts (Golding, Brown, Foley, Harvey & Gleeson, 2007), which showed that men';s sheds informally cater for non vocational, social, health, wellbeing and learning needs of mainly older men. We deliberately used unedited transcripts from the NCVER project in the form of narratives or stories to give the men an opportunity to speak for themselves about the benefits of participating in men's sheds. The paper highlights some of the limitations of the methodology used in the attempt to allow the men themselves to make sense of the benefits they experience and enjoy from participating in men's sheds as conveyed through their own voices.
- Publisher
- Adelaide : AVETRA
- Relation
- Paper presented at AVETRA 2008 Conference, Adelaide : 3rd-4th April 2008
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Men's sheds; Learning; Older men; Well being; Community
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