Invented in Australia, by the time this book was first published in 2015, the remarkable Men’s Shed Movement had spread from the back blocks of Australia to reach a total of more than 1,400 Men’s Sheds in diverse countries on opposite sides of the world. This book provides a fascinating, carefully evidenced and definitive story of early Men’s Sheds for the first time. It is a book and movement whose time has come. Many nations had been struggling to meet the needs and interests of men beyond the workplace. Over two decades, by 2015 the Men’s Shed Movement had mushroomed from the ground up to become a strongly networked international movement, not only in Australia, but also in Ireland, the UK, New Zealand, and continental Europe. How and why this has happened and what the evidence and research mean for service providers, communities and the men in the Men’s Sheds Movement is thoroughly explored.

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Barry Golding AM is the respected world expert in the field of older men’s learning and wellbeing, being a patron of the Australian Men’s Shed Association since 2009 and the winner of the coveted Ted Donnelly Award in 2013 for his “outstanding contribution to the Men’s Shed Movement.” Golding is an Honorary Professor of Education in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Federation University, Australia. Barry has extensive research experience in all adult learning sectors. In the past 25 years his research has focused mainly on equity and access in adult and community education, with an emphasis on learning experienced by men informally through participation in community organisations. He has completed many national and international studies of men’s learning and wellbeing through community participation including through Men’s Sheds.

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