Taking Charge at Any Age: Learning and Wellbeing by Older Men through Community Organisations in Australia.
This paper examines and compares learning narratives associated with older men’s participation in three community organisations in an Australian rural setting: an adult and community education provider, an emergency service organization and an aged care facility. The interview data are from a larger Australian study of learning in community settings by older men (age 50+ years of age). The paper examines what factors influence older men’s learning and wellbeing through community organisations. It concludes that preferred learning for older men in community organisations is typically through group participation in practical situations for pragmatic purposes. Community organisations aside from education providers are shown to provide critically important opportunities for older men to actively redefine and recreate personal meanings and rapidly changing identities beyond those developed through paid work. Introduction Australia is experiencing an increasingly older population. One of the fastest growing cohorts is older men of working age who are not participating in the paid workforce or who are retired from paid work. These men are less likely than other adults to engage in formal learning, including through adult and community education (ACE) organisations. Such men are also vulnerable as they age to social isolation and problems with health and wellbeing. Education and training discourses typically presuppose that adult education participants are either younger individuals preparing for paid work, or pursuing learning ‘out of interest’ through ACE providers. This research looks specifically and deliberately at older men’s learning through community involvement in two organization types beyond ACE: fire and emergency services and an
Excluded Men: Men Who Are Missing from Education and Training
Contents List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The context: participation patterns of men and women Chapter 2 The implications: why we should be concerned about the missing groups Chapter 3 Understanding male attitudes and participation patterns Chapter 4 Young men: examples of approaches to improve motivation and participation Chapter 5 Men over 25: examples of approaches to improve motivation and participation Chapter 6 Conclusions Bibliography
When to Cross the Spread? Trading in Two-Sided Limit Order Books
In this paper the problem of optimal trading in illiquid markets is addressed when the deviations from a given stochastic target function describing, for instance, external aggregate client flow are penalized. Using techniques of singular stochastic control, we extend the results of [F. Naujokat and N. Westray, Math. Financ. Econ., 4 (2011), pp. 299--335] to a two-sided limit order market with temporary market impact and resilience, where the bid ask spread is now also controlled. In addition to using market orders, the trader can also submit orders to a dark pool. We first show existence and uniqueness of an optimal control. In a second step, a suitable version of the stochastic maximum principle is derived which yields a characterization of the optimal trading strategy in terms of a nonstandard coupled forward-backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE). We show that the optimal control can be characterized via buy, sell, and no-trade regions. The new feature is that we now get a nondegenerate no-...