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Dr Zane Ma Rhea

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Job title:Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:BSocStuds(Syd); DipEd,Hons,PhD(Flinders)
Phone:+61 3 990 52823
Location:Clayton, building 6, room 126
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Research interests

  • Strategic Change Management
  • Global leadership Skills Development
  • Indigenous Education and Capacity Building
  • Traditional and Indigenous Wisdom and Knowledge in a globalised world
  • Literacy and Numeracy Programs in Indigenous Communities
  • Cross-cultural perspectives on teaching and learning
  • Cross-cultural issues in knowledge production
  • Policy ethnography
  • Indigenous-Settler Relations

Fields of Research (FOR)

  • Sociology of Education
  • Technical, Further and Workplace Education
  • Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
  • Education Policy
  • Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
  • Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development
  • History and Philosophy of Education
  • Education systems not elsewhere classified

Selected 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 and Langton, M. 2009. The right to the good life: indigenous education and the ladder to prosperity in H. Sykes, (Ed) Perspectives. Sydney, Australia: Future Leaders.
  • Ma Rhea, Z and Atkinson, B. 2008. I'm Black ... Apart from that I Enjoy School: Aboriginal Children in Australia In Eva Alerby and Jill Brown (Eds) Voices from the Margins: School Experiences of Indigenous, Refugee and Migrant Children (pp.89-108) The Netherlands Sense Publishers.
  • 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 Ma Rhea, Z. 2009. Indigenising International Education in Business Journal of International Education in Business 2 (2), pp. 15-27
  • 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 18/01/2010.
  • Ma Rhea, Z. 2002. 'Raising Awareness of Indigenous Knowledge in Science and Technology Education' at http://www.scidev.net/Dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=policybrief&Dossier=7&policy=35 accessed on 18/01/2010.

See Zane Ma Rhea in the Monash Research Directory

Supervision

Strategic Change Management

Human Resource Development: Leadership and Management Development Organisational Change

Mainstream education provision in Indigenous, minority and traditionally oriented communities

Teaching commitments