Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Education
Sociology of Education, Comparative and International Education, Aboriginal Education, Indigenous Education, Higher Education, Adult Education, Buddhist Education, Leadership and Management Education, Sustainability Education, Complex Adaptive Systems
Organisational Development
Strategic Planning, Change Management, Diversity Leadership and Management, Indigenous Leadership Development, Emergent Organisational Transformation, Leadership and Management of Organizational Sustainability, Complex Adaptive Systems
Supervision interests
- Organisational Development and Professional Practice
- Education of Indigenous and Other Traditionally Oriented Peoples
- Sociology of Knowledge
- Emergent Organisational Transformation
- Education for Sustainability
- Teacher Professional Development and Learning in Indigenous Education
- School Leadership of Indigenous Education
Monash teaching commitment
EDF 2031 Indigenous Perspectives on Teaching and Learning (both Priary and Early Years)
EDF 4513 Indigenous and Traditional Education in a Global World
EDF 5657 Indigenous Perspectives on Professional Practice
EDF 5665 Environmental Education, design and learning for sustainability
EDF 6823 Management and Change
Community service
I am a member of the Worowa Academic Reference Group. Worowa is an independent Aboriginal Boarding School for young women, Healesville, Victoria.
Biography
I work in the Faculty of Education and am an Associate Professor. My research theorizes cross-cultural understandings of the cultivation of wisdom and examines how higher education and schooling are harming or supporting the sustainable education of wise, global citizens. This project is transdisciplinary in nature involving studies of culture, professional practice, and organisational transformation as they influence the cultivation of wisdom in education.
Originally trained as a social worker in the 1970s, I worked in Australia, UK and Spain, returning to Australia in the late 1980s. I began my academic career in the 1990s, first undertaking a Diploma of Education specialising in Indigenous Education and went on to Honours in Sociology and Education. Achieving a University Medal, in 1993 I won an Australian government Research in Asia award to undertake my PhD studies in Thailand. In 1997-1998, I was the Smuts Visiting Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.
My teaching, supervision, and research spans organisational development, leadership development, professional skills development in mainstream service provision to Indigenous peoples, and theorising knowledge exchanges within complex, postcolonial democratic states. I have worked with schools across Australia and internationally, with clients such as Telstra, DIMIA, Visy, ADFA, and Victoria Police in organisational development programs, and have led collaborative research partnerships with universities and communities in Australia, Sweden, Slovak Republic, Canada, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.
In 2000, I co-edited and contributed to Local Knowledge and Wisdom in Higher Education laying the foundation for my theoretical work on the transfer of knowledge across a diversity of cultures under globalisation. The outcomes of my recent ARC Discovery Grant have been a national conference and a co-edited special edition of The Artefact journal honouring the work of Beth Gott. In 2012-2013, I co-led two research projects, the outcomes of which have informed government policy and produced publications on teacher standards in Indigenous Education.
My most recent publication is Leading and Managing Indigenous Education in the Postcolonial World (Routledge 2014). I am also Editor of the ANZCIES flagship journal International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives.
Research area keywords
- Wisdom in Education
- Comparative Education
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- Values education
- Sociology of Education
- Leadership Development
- Teacher Professional Development and Learning
- Food and Indigenous-Settler Relations
Network
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Projects 2008 2021
The Cultural Safety in Foreign Language Teaching (外语教育中文化安全问题)
Cai, Y., Ding, L., Chen, J., Zhang, H., Diamond, Z., Liu, Y., Yu, M. & Liu, Y.
5/06/18 → 30/06/21
Project: Research
NATSIHEC Accelerating Indigenous High Education: Improved Indigenous outcomes in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Anderson, P. J. & Diamond, Z.
16/09/16 → 2/12/16
Project: Research
Understanding/promoting links between traditional culture/knowledge, food security and sustainability in South Asia (Asia)
Plahe, J., Diamond, Z., Vicziany, A. & Arup, C.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) (Comm)
15/04/15 → 9/01/16
Project: Research
AITSL Teacher Professional Development in Indigenous Education Course (TPDIEC) Project
Diamond, Z. & White, S.
1/07/12 → 1/03/13
Project: Research
Food, Traditional Aboriginal Knowledge and the Expansion of the Settler Economy
Russell, L., Langton, M. & Diamond, Z.
Australian Research Council (ARC), University of Melbourne
4/04/08 → 31/08/12
Project: Research
Research Output 1995 2018
Buddhist pedagogy in teacher education: cultivating wisdom by skillful means
Ma Rhea, Z., 15 Mar 2018, In : Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. 46, 2, p. 199-216 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Indigenist holistic educational leadership
Ma Rhea, Z., 2018, Educational Leadership as a Culturally-Constructed Practice: New Directions and Possibilities. Wilkinson, J. & Bristol, L. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon: Routledge, p. 118-136 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
Rights-based Indigenous education in Australia: evidence-based policy to pedagogy
Anderson, P. J. & Ma Rhea, Z., 2018, Evidence-Based Learning and Teaching: A Look into Australian Classrooms. Barnes, M., Gindidis, M. & Phillipson, S. (eds.). Abingdon UK: Routledge, p. 205-216 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
Towards an Indigenist, Gaian pedagogy of food: deimperializing foodScapes in the classroom
Ma Rhea, Z., 15 Mar 2018, In : Journal of Environmental Education. 49, 2, p. 103-116 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Frontiers of taste: Food sovereignty, sustainability, and Indigenous-Settler relations in Australia
Ma Rhea, Z., 2017, 1 ed. Springer. 208 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
Activities 1997 2014
International Education Journal (Journal)
Zane Ma Rhea (Editor in chief)Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
ANZCIES (Publisher)
Zane Ma Rhea (Associate editor)Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
Monash University Publishing (Publisher)
Zane Ma Rhea (Associate editor)Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
Environmental Education Research (Publisher)
Zane Ma Rhea (Peer reviewer)Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
Reconciliation Action Plan
Zane Ma Rhea (Member)Activity: External Academic Engagement › Submissions to industry or govt committees, commissions and inquiries