Dr Zane Ma Rhea

Job title:	Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:	BSocStuds(Syd); DipEd,Hons,PhD(Flinders)
Location:	Clayton, building 6, room 217
Phone:	+61 3 990 52823
Email:	zane.Marhea@Education.monash.edu.au
Fax:	+61 3 9905 2779
Personal website:	http://www.education.monash.edu.au/indigenous-ed

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Teaching commitment

• EDF4513
  
• EDF6009
  
• EDF6823
  

Research Interests

Indigenous Education

Traditional and Indigenous Wisdom and Knowledge in a globalised world

Leadership and Management of Diversity in HRD

Cross-cultural perspectives on teaching and learning

Cross-cultural issues in knowledge production

Supervision

Accelerated Learning in Indigenous Communities

Organisational Development

Human Resource Development

Education and Leadership in South East Asia

Community Policing

Publications

Book Teasdale, G.R. and Ma Rhea, Z. (Eds). 2000. Local Knowledge and Wisdom in Higher Education. UK, USA: Pergamon Elsevier.

Book Chapters Ma Rhea, Z. 2007. Where the Global Meets the Local: Workforce Diversity Education. In L. Farrell and T. Fenwick (Eds.) Educating the Global Workforce: World Education Yearbook 2006. London, UK and New York, USA: RoutledgeFalmer, 252-71. Ma Rhea, Z. and Seddon, T. 2005. Negotiating Nation: Globalization and Knowing in D. Coulby and E. Zambeta (Eds). Globalization and Nationalism in Education: World Education Yearbook 2005. London, UK and New York, USA: RoutledgeFalmer, pp. 252-71. Langton, M and Ma Rhea, Z. 2005. Traditional Indigenous Biodiversity-related Knowledge in M. Nakata and M. Langton (Eds). Australian Indigenous Knowledge and Libraries. Canberra, Australia: Australian Academic and Research Libraries. Ma Rhea, Z. 2002. The Economy of Ideas: Colonial Gift and Postcolonial Product in A. Quayson and DT Goldberg (Eds). Relocating Postcoloniality London, UK: Blackwells, pp. 205-16. Ma Rhea, Z. and Rigney, Lester Irabinna. 2002. Researching with Respect: Supervising Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Students in J. Sillitoe et al. (Eds). Assisting Beginning Research Students from Non-Traditional Backgrounds, Higher Education, Research and Development, HERDSA.

Journal Articles Langton, M, Ma Rhea, Z. and Palmer, L. 2005. Community-Oriented Protected Areas for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Journal of Political Ecology 12, pp. 23-50. Ma Rhea, Z. 2004. The preservation and maintenance of the knowledge of Indigenous peoples and local communities: the role of education in Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. 2(1), pp.3-18. Ma Rhea, Z. 2002. 'Towards a Global Future of Reconciliation or Reconciling to the Global Future?' in TESOL in Context 11(2), pp. 3 - 11. Ma Rhea, Z. 2001. Approaches to the Development of Critical Analysis in the University: the Impact of Culture in Manyusa: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Other publications Langton, M and Ma Rhea, Z. 2003. Australia, Asia and the Middle East - Regional report on the status and trends concerning the knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity UNEP/CBD/WG8J/INF/4. Available at http://www.biodiv.org/doc/meetings/tk/wg8j-03/information/wg8j-03-inf-04-en.pdf accessed on 05/10/2007.