CONTENTS APRIL 2011

page 24 18 The Learning Age

and after Labour’s 1998 Green Paper seemed to herald a new dawn for adult learning in the UK but by 2010 it had become a marker of how much Labour’s ambitions for the sector had diminished. In the fourth article in a series marking 90 years of NIACE support for adult learning, Paul Stanistreet reflects on the Labour years and looks forward to the challenges facing the Institute in the second decade of the twenty-first century

24 Thinking inside the box The ‘men’s sheds’ movement is a

grassroots phenomenon that has engaged and inspired men from communities across Australia in hands-on, workshop-based social activity. With men’s sheds spreading to other countries, including the UK, Barry Golding asks what adult educators can learn from the movement

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28 ‘It can change your life’ The Get Digital programme aims to

deliver digital inclusion for residents of sheltered housing. A NIACE study asked how older people about to take part in the project felt about learning computer and internet skills and what they hoped to gain from it. Sara Bosley reports

“The common element of community men’s sheds is that men come together in a workshop-type setting, where they feel valued, at home and contribute positively to their community and to other men”

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