Dr Levon Blue
Chancellery Division,
Indigenous Strategy,
Carumba Institute
Biography
Dr Levon Blue is a senior lecturer at the Carumba Institute at Queensland University of Technology. She is the coordinator of the National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN). Levon was awarded a PhD in 2016 that focused on financial literacy education practices in a First Nation community in Canada. She is a member of Beausoleil First Nation in Canada and lives in Australia. Levon’s research area includes financial literacy education and higher education. She is Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council funded grants: National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN), and Discovery Indigenous – Empowering Indigenous Businesses Through Improved Financial and Commercial Literacy. Levon has published many journal articles, book chapters and more recently co-edited a book titled “Indigenizing Education: Discussions and Case Studies from Australia and Canada”.Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Chancellery Division,
Indigenous Strategy,
Carumba Institute
Keywords
Financial literacy education, Entrepreneurship education, Indigenous education
Research field
Specialist Studies in Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy, Other Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctorate of Philosophy (Griffith University)
Professional memberships and associations
Dr Levon Blue is a member of:
- Pedagogy Education Praxis (PEP) International Research Network;
- Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA);
- Graduate Women of Queensland;
- Financial Education and Mathematics Community;
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Mathematics Alliance (ATSIMA); and,
- National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN).
Teaching
Teaching Areas:
- Ethics for Education
- Education and Society
- Indigenous Perspectives: Respectful Engagement & Understanding Rights
- Indigenous postgraduate research
Experience
Invited Member, National Financial Capabilities Research Steering Committee, Australian Securities and Investment Commission (2019-2020) Invited Academic, Draft National Financial Capability Strategy Roundtable, The Treasury (Australian Government) (August 2021) Invited Keynote Speaker, NSW Adult Literacy and Numeracy Council (December 2021 Conference)
Selected publications
- Blue L, Pinto L, (2022) Disrupting the alibi: Toward a postcolonial financial literacy and entrepreneurship ideal. In T Lucey, Financialization, Financial Literacy, and Social Education, Routledge, pp. 5-22.
- Samuel A, Whatham S, Blue L, (2020) Indigenizing Education: Discussions and Case Studies from Australia and Canada., Springer.
- Blue L, Grootenboer P, (2019) A praxis approach to financial literacy education, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 51 (5), pp. 755-770.
- Blue L, (2019) Financial literacy education with an Aboriginal community: Identifying critical moments for enabling praxis, Education Sciences, 9 (1), pp. 1-13.
- Bodle K, Brimble M, Weaven S, Frazer L, Blue L, (2018) Critical success factors in managing sustainable Indigenous businesses in Australia, Pacific Accounting Review, 30 (1), pp. 35-51.
- Blue L, O'Brien M, Makar K, (2018) Exploring the classroom practices that may enable a compassionate approach to financial literacy education, Mathematics Education Research Journal, 30 (2), pp. 143-164.
- Pinto L, Blue L, (2017) Aboriginal entrepreneurship financing in Canada: Walking the fine line between self-determination and colonization, Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies, 9 (1), pp. 2-20.
- Blue L, Pinto L, (2017) Other ways of being: challenging dominant financial literacy discourses in Aboriginal Context, Australian Educational Researcher, 44 (1), pp. 55-70.
- Pinto L, Blue L, (2016) Pushing the entrepreneurial prodigy: Canadian Aboriginal entrepreneurship education initiatives, Critical Studies in Education, 57 (3), pp. 358-375.
- Blue L, Grootenboer P, Brimble M, (2014) Financial literacy education in the curriculum: Making the grade or missing the mark?, International Review of Economics Education, 16, pp. 51-62.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Levon, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Selected research projects
- Title
- Empowering Indigenous Businesses Through Improved Financial Literacy
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- IN180100052
- Start year
- 2018
- Keywords
- Title
- National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN)
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- SR120100005
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- Indigenous Knowledge; Research Capacity Building
Projects listed above are funded by Australian Competitive Grants. Projects funded from other sources are not listed due to confidentiality agreements.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Enacting Indigenous Policy: The Impact of School Leader's Decision-Making in NSW Secondary Schools
PhD, Associate Supervisor