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| Older men's learning through age-related community organisations in Australia | | Author(s) | Barry Golding |
| Journal title | International Journal of Education and Ageing, vol 1, no 3, 2011 |
| Publisher | Association for Education and Ageing, 2011 |
| Pages | pp 237-252 |
| Source | http://www.associationforeducationandageing.org |
| Keywords | Older men ; Participation ; Adult Education ; Voluntary agencies ; Qualitative Studies ; Quantitative studies ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Learning is acknowledged to occur across the lifespan for men in a wide range of contexts, including initial education training and work. In work-related contexts, learning is relatively well-researched. This paper explores less examined learning beyond work in Australia, specifically the learning experienced by older men (age 50+) through participation in age-based community organisations. In many nations, population ageing, men's early withdrawal from paid work and the low proportion of men actively involved in course-based learning have raised questions internationally about what learning older men need and can access in community settings in which age becomes a criterion for participation. These questions have become more prominent in nations such as Australia, where neo-liberal policies, privileging nationally sanctioned vocational learning, have led to the shrinking of an already very small and nationally patchy adult and community education service at the same time that the proportion of older men not in work has increased. This article is based on an Australian mixed methods study of 48 diverse communities across three Australian states. Research interviews and surveys with participants in these organisations explored aspects of older men's learning. Some comparisons and insights are available between age-based and non-age-based community organisations in which median ages of participants are relatively high. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180316216 A |
| Classmark | BC: TMB: GP: PK: 3DP: 3DQ: 7YA |
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