Associate Professor Jodie Miller
Deputy Head of School & Associate Professor
School of Education
+61 7 336 56521
Researcher biography
Dr Jodie Miller is an Associate Professor in mathematics education, in the School of Education at the University of Queensland, where she is currently the Deputy Head of School. Her research focuses on improving the educational outcomes of students most at risk of marginalisation in school, particularly in the fields of Mathematics and Indigenous education.
Jodie is internationally recognised for her research in early algebraic thinking and evidenced based strategies to support engagement in mathematics in primary school settings. She leads research projects with a focus on classroom and mathematical practices, teacher professional development, culturally responsive teaching, and examining student understanding. This research has been conducted in countries including Australia, New Zealand, and Germany.
In addition to this, Jodie's recent research collaborations focus on examining excellence in Indigenous education. This work is co-led with Dr Marnee Shay, where the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are brought to the forefront to re-imagine the notion of excellence in Indigenous education.
Publications
Books
Siemon, Dianne , Warren, Elizabeth, Beswick, Kim, Faragher, Rhonda, Miller, Jodie, Horne, Marj, Jazby, Dan and Breed, Margarita (2020). Teaching mathematics: foundations to middle years. 3rd ed. Melbourne, Australia : Oxford University Press.
Warren, Elizabeth and Miller, Jodie (2016). Mathematics at the margins. Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-0703-3
Book Chapters
Miller, Jodie, Choy, Ban Heng, Leach, Generosa, Sawatzki, Carly and Hunter, Jodie (2024). Productive Pedagogical Practices: Impact on Mathematics Teaching and Learning. Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2020–2023. (pp. 109-136) Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-97-1964-8_6
Miller, Jodie, Armour, Danielle, Shay, Marnee and Sawatzki, Carly (2023). What Next? Building on the Evidence of Teaching and Learning Mathematics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students. Assessing the Evidence in Indigenous Education Research. (pp. 201-227) Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-14306-9_11
Bills, Trevor, Sawatzki, Carly, Hunter, Jodie and Miller, Jodie (2022). ‘Pākehā get more money than the other cultures': teaching Pāsifika students with and for a social justice orientation. Financialization, financial literacy, and social education. (pp. 23-41) edited by Thomas A. Lucey. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003020264-3
Hameed, Suraiya, Shay, Marnee and Miller, Jodie (2022). ‘Deadly leadership’ in the pursuit of Indigenous education excellence.. Future alternatives for educational leadership: diversity, inclusion, equity and democracy. (pp. 93-110) edited by Deborah M. Netolicky. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003131496-10
Shay, Marnee and Miller, Jodie (2021). Excellence in Indigenous education. Building better schools with evidence-based policy: adaptable policy for teachers and school leaders. (pp. 46-54) edited by Kelly-Ann Allen, Andrea Reupert and Lindsay Oades. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003025955-7
Armour, Danielle and Miller, Jodie (2021). Relational pedagogies and co-constructing curriculum. Indigenous education in Australia: learning and teaching for deadly futures. (pp. 162-173) edited by Marnee Shay and Rhonda Oliver. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429263453-13
Hunter, Jodie, Miller, Jodie, Choy, Ban Heng and Hunter, Roberta (2020). Innovative and powerful pedagogical practices in mathematics education. Research in mathematics education in Australasia 2016–2019. (pp. 293-318) edited by Jennifer Way, Catherine Attard , Judy Anderson, Janette Bobis, Heather McMaster and Katherin Cartwright. Singapore: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-4269-5_12
Larkin, Kevin and Miller, Jodie (2020). Digital technologies and numeracy—synergy or discord?. STEM education across the learning continuum: early childhood to senior secondary. (pp. 137-154) edited by Amy MacDonald, Lena Danaia and Steve Murphy. Singapore: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-2821-7_8
Miller, Jodie, Warren, Elizabeth and Armour, Danielle (2018). Mathematical discourse when engaging in pattern generalisation: considering semiotic systems in young Indigenous Australian students. Mathematical discourse that breaks barriers and creates space for marginalized learners. (pp. 213-234) edited by Roberta Hunter, Marta Civil, Beth Herbel-Eisenmann, Núria Planas and David Wagner. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. doi: 10.1163/9789004378735_011
Geiger, Vince, Calder, Nigel, Tan, Hazel, Loong, Esther, Miller, Jodie and Larkin, Kevin (2016). Transformations of teaching and learning through digital technologies. Research in Mathematics Education in Australasia 2012-2015. (pp. 255-280) edited by Katie Makar, Shelley Dole, Jana Visnovska, Merrilyn Goos, Anne Bennison and Kym Fry. Singapore: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-1419-2_13
Journal Articles
Morrell, Patricia, Visnovska, Jana and Miller, Jodie (2024). Australian primary school students’ understandings about the nature of scientific inquiry. Research in Science Education. doi: 10.1007/s11165-024-10195-0
Shay, Marnee, Miller, Jodie, Hameed, Suraiya and Armour, Danielle (2024). Indigenous voices: reimagining Indigenous education through a discourse of excellence. The Australian Educational Researcher, 1-19. doi: 10.1007/s13384-024-00718-z
Shay, Marnee, Sarra, Grace, Lampert, Jo, Jeong, Daeul, Thomson, Amy and Miller, Jodie (2024). Codesign in Indigenous education policy and practice—A systematic literature review. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 1-20. doi: 10.1002/ajs4.320
Armour, Danielle and Miller, Jodie (2023). The role of Aboriginal education officers in the context of settler colonial schooling: challenges and possibilities. The Australian Educational Researcher, 51 (4), 1177-1193. doi: 10.1007/s13384-023-00634-8
Monteleone, Chrissy, Miller, Jodie and Warren, Elizabeth (2023). Conceptualising critical mathematical thinking in young students. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 35 (2), 339-359. doi: 10.1007/s13394-023-00445-1
Hunter, Jodie and Miller, Jodie (2022). The use of cultural contexts for patterning tasks: supporting young diverse students to identify structures and generalise. ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 54 (6), 1349-1362. doi: 10.1007/s11858-022-01386-y
Fielding, Jill, Geiger, Vincent, Miller, Jodie, Bruder, Regina, Towara, Ulrike and Ratnayake, Iresha (2022). Using situated expectancy value theory to explore initial teacher education students' motivation to engage with challenging mathematical tasks. Teaching and Teacher Education, 113 103663, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2022.103663
Shay, Marnee, Miller, Jodie and Hameed, Suraiya Abdul (2021). Excellence is the Future of Indigenous Education. Teacher Magazine.
Miller, Jodie and Hunter, Jodie (2021). The challenge of moving mathematics education research beyond a 'White space'. For the Learning of Mathematics, 41 (2), 2-7.
McDowall, Ailie, Mills, Carmen, Cawte, Katie and Miller, Jodie (2021). Data use as the heart of data literacy: an exploration of pre-service teachers’ data literacy practices in a teaching performance assessment. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 49 (5), 487-502. doi: 10.1080/1359866x.2020.1777529
Hunter, Jodie and Miller, Jodie (2020). Using a culturally responsive approach to develop early algebraic reasoning with young diverse learners. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 20 (1), 111-131. doi: 10.1007/s10763-020-10135-0
Miller, Jodie and Armour, Danielle (2019). Supporting successful outcomes in mathematics for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students: a systematic review. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 49 (1), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/1359866x.2019.1698711
Miller, Jodie (2019). STEM education in the primary years to support mathematical thinking: using coding to identify mathematical structures and patterns. ZDM, 51 (6), 915-927. doi: 10.1007/s11858-019-01096-y
Miller, Jodie, Warren, Elizabeth and Armour, Danielle (2019). Examining changes in young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island students and their beginning primary school teachers’ engagement in the teaching and learning of mathematics. ZDM, 52 (3), 557-569. doi: 10.1007/s11858-019-01077-1
Armour, Danielle, Warren, Elizabeth and Miller, Jodie (2016). Working together: strategies that support cross-cultural engagement of Indigenous teacher assistants working in Indigenous contexts. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 44 (5), 421-435. doi: 10.1080/1359866X.2015.1127324
Warren, Elizabeth and Miller, Jodie (2015). Supporting English second-language learners in disadvantaged contexts: learning approaches that promote success in mathematics. International Journal of Early Years Education, 23 (2), 192-208. doi: 10.1080/09669760.2014.969200
Warren, Elizabeth, Harris, Katherine and Miller, Jodie (2014). Supporting young ESL students from disadvantaged contexts in their engagement with mathematics: Teachers' pedagogical challenges. International Journal of Pedagogies & Learning, 9 (1), 10-25. doi: 10.1080/18334105.2014.11082016
Miller, Jodie and Warren, Elizabeth (2014). Exploring ESL students’ understanding of mathematics in the early years: factors that make a difference. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 26 (4), 791-810. doi: 10.1007/s13394-014-0121-z
Warren, Elizabeth and Miller, Jodie (2013). Enriching the Professional Learning of Early Years Teachers in Disadvantaged Contexts: The Impact of Quality Resources and Quality Professional Learning. Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 38 (7) 7, 91-111. doi: 10.14221/ajte.2013v38n7.6
Warren, Elizabeth and Miller, Jodie (2013). Teaching mathematics in disadvantaged contexts: Success as a function of quality resources, quality teaching and quality professional learning. Quadrante, 22 (2), 137-162.
Warren, Elizabeth, Miller, Jodie and Cooper, Thomas J. (2013). Exploring Young Students' Functional Thinking. PNA - Revista De Investigacion En Didactica De La Matematica, 7 (2), 75-84.
Warren, Elizabeth and Miller, Jodie (2013). Young Australian Indigenous students' effective engagement in mathematics: The role of language, patterns, and structure. Mathematics Education Research Journal, 25 (1), 151-171. doi: 10.1007/s13394-013-0068-5
Warren, Elizabeth, Miller, Jodie and Cooper, Thomas (2012). Repeating patterns: Strategies to assist young students to generalise the mathematical structure. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 37 (3), 111-120. doi: 10.1177/183693911203700315
Warren, Elizabeth and Miller, Jodie (2010). Exploring four year old Indigenous students' ability to pattern. International Research in Early Childhood Education, 1 (2), 42-56.
Conference Papers
Hunter, Jodie, Miller, Jodie, Bowmar, Alex and Jones, Ian (2022). “It has the same numbers, just in a different order”: Middle School Students Noticing Algebraic Structures Within Equivalent Equations. Mathematical confluences and journeys: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Launceston, TAS Australia, 3-7 July 2022. Launceston, TAS Australia: MERGA.
Hameed, S., Shay, M. and Miller, J. (2021). Shrewd marketization- the impact of internationalisation of education on educational systems and curricula in Singapore & Australia, Online ECER Conference Geneva 2021. ECER 2021 Online Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 6-10 September 2021.
Shay, Marnee, Miller, Jodie and Hameed, Suraiya (2021). Exploring excellence in Indigenous education in Queensland secondary schools. ACER conference 2021, Virtual, 17-19 August 2021. Camberwell, VIC Australia: Australian Council for Educational Research. doi: 10.37517/978-1-74286-638-3_8
Shay, Marnee, Miller, Jodie and Abdul Hammed, Suraiya (2021). Exploring excellence in Indigenous education in Queensland secondary schools. Research Conference 2021: Excellent progress for every student, Online, 16-20 August 2021. Melbourne, VIC Australia: Australian Council for Educational Research. doi: 10.37517/978-1-74286-638-3_8
Shay, Marnee and Miller, Jodie (2019). Doing things right way: dimensions of excellence in Indigenous education in Queensland secondary schools. Australian Association for Research in Education, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 1-5 December 2019.
Fielding-Wells, Jill, Geiger, Vince, Miller, Jodie, Bruder, Regina, Roder, Ulrike and Ratnayake, Iresha (2019). Designing challenging online mathematical tasks for initial teacher education: motivational considerations. 43rd Annual Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME 43), Pretoria, South Africa, 7-11 July 2019. Pretoria, South Africa: PME.
Hunter, Jodie and Miller, Jodie (2018). Using a Contextual Pāsifika Patterning Task to Support Generalisation. 41st Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia: Making waves, opening spaces , Auckland, New Zealand, 1-5 July 2018. Adelaide, SA Australia: MERGA.
Hunter, Jodie and Miller, Jodie (2017). Using cultural tasks to develop growing pattern generalisations for young culturally diverse students. 14th Biennial International Symposium on Elementary Mathematics Teaching (SEMT), Prague, Czech Republic, 20-25 August 2017. Prague, Czech Republic: Charles University.
Miller, Jodie and Larkin, Kevin (2017). Using coding to promote mathematical thinking with Year 2 students: alignment with the Australian curriculum. 40 years on: we are still learning!, Monash University, VIC, Clayton Campus, 2-6 July 2017. Melbourne, VIC Australia: MERGA.
Miller, Jodie (2016). Young Indigenous students en route to generalising growing patterns. 39th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA39), Adelaide SA Australia, 2-7 July 2016. Adelaide SA Australia: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA).
Miller, Jodie and Warren, Elizabeth (2015). Young Australian Indigenous students generalising growing patterns: a case study of teacher/student semiotic interactions. Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, July 2015. Hobart, Australia: PME.
Miller, Jodie (2015). Young Indigenous students’ engagement with growing pattern tasks: a semiotic perspective. Mathematics education in the margins, Sunshine Coast University, July 2015. Sunshine Coast: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA).
Armour, Danielle , Warren, Elizabeth and Miller, Jodie (2014). Confidence and professional learning: a case study of Indigenous teacher assistants attending professional learning. AARE-NZARE 2014 Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 30 November - 4 December 2014. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Australian Association for Research in Education.
Miller, Jodie (2014). Young Australian Indigenous students’ growing pattern generalisations: The role of gesture when generalising. Curriculum in focus: Research Guided Practice: 35th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Adelaide, SA Australia, July 2014. Adelaide, SA Australia: MERGA.
Miller, Jodie and Warren, Elizabeth (2012). An exploration into growing patterns with young Australian Indigenous students. 35th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia: Mathematics Education: Expanding Horizons, Singapore, July 2012. Adelaide, SA Australia: MERGA.
Miller, Jodie and Warren, Elizabeth (2012). Exploration into cultural aspects of mathematic generalisation: Young Indigenous students. 12th International Conference of Mathematics Education, South Korea, 2012. South Korea: ICME.
Warren, Elizabeth, Miller, Jodie and Cooper, Thomas J. (2011). Exploring young children's functional thinking. 35th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME), Ankara, Turkey, 10-15 July 2011. Praha, Czech Republic: International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME).
Warren, Elizabeth , Miller, Jodie and Cooper, Thomas (2011). An exploration of young students’ ability to generalise function tasks. 34th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Research Group of Australasia, Alice Springs, NT Australia, July 2011. Adelaide, SA Australia: MERGA.
Warren, Elizabeth and Miller, Jodie (2010). Indigenous children's ability to pattern as they enter kindergarten/pre-prep settings: An exploratory study. 33rd Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Fremantle, WA Australia, 3-7 July 2010. Adelaide, SA Australia: MERGA.
Newspaper Articles
Shay, Marnee, Miller, Jodie, Armour, Danielle and Hameed, Suraiya (2024, 05 30). Now, more than ever, we need change in Indigenous education AARE EduBlog
Shay, Marnee , Miller, Jodie and Mills, Martin (2022, 12 09). ‘I would like to go to university’: flexi school students share their goals in Australia-first survey The Conversation
Shay, Marnee, Armour, Danielle, Miller, Jodie and Abdul Hameed, Suraiya (2022, 11 09). ‘Once students knew their identity, they excelled’: how to talk about excellence in Indigenous education The Conversation
Creative Works
Shay, Marnee, Cole, Antoinette, Thomson, Amy, Hurley, Amanda, Miller, Jodie, Hameed, Suraiya, Rashidi, Pedram, Ockerby, Zoe, Perkins, Ren, Harvey Smith, Lisa and Williams, Lisa A (2024). The Big Mob STEM it Up! poster series. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Shay, M., Perkins, R., Miller, J., Thomson, A., Cole, A., Hameed, S., Harvey Smith, L. and Williams, L. (2023). Big Mob STEM It Up Project podcast. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Research Reports
Shay, Marnee, Miller, Jodie, Thomson, Amy, Cole, Antoinette, Abdul Hameed, Suraiya, Perkins, Ren, Rashidi, Pedram, Hurley, Amanda, Ockerby, Zoe, Harvey-Smith, Lisa and Williams, Lisa A. (2023). Big Mob: STEM it up research report 2023. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Shay, Marnee, Miller, Jodie, Mills, Martin and Ockerby, Zoe (2022). Flexi youth voices report 2022. Brisbane, QLD, Queensland: The University of Queensland.
Shay, Marnee, Radke, Amelia and Miller, Jodie (2019). Indigenous Evaluation Strategy (Policy Submission). Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.