Anindito Aditomo
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MPhil(Sydney) PhD candidate |
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Keywords
epistemology, scientific inquiry, beliefs on knowledge and learning, pre-service teacher
Research project description
Anindito Aditomo (Nino) is undertaking a PhD study at the Centre for Research on Computer Supported Learning and Cognition, Faculty of Education and Social Work, Sydney University. He holds an undergraduate degree in psychology and a master of philosophy in education, and is a current recipient of the University of Sydney International Scholarship. Prior to his PhD study, Nino was a lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology, the University of Surabaya.
Nino's broader academic interest is on how people achieve deep understanding, and how knowledge about how people learn can be used to improve education. In his PhD, Nino is exploring the nature of preservice teachers' science epistemology. More specifically, the project investigates (a) the kinds of ideas that preservice teachers have about scientific knowledge and inquiry; (b) the coherence and stability of those ideas; and (c) the role of those ideas in the planning and evaluation of inquiry-based science lessons. These aims are set in the context of a current theoretical debate about whether epistemic beliefs are best modeled as unitary cognitive structures (and hence should form a coherent theory and be stable across context) or as finer-grained, sub-symbolic elements (and thus should be more fluid and context-dependent). Different pedagogical consequences flow from each of these theorisation.
In 2008, Nino was awarded a Master of Philosophy degree from this faculty. The title of this thesis is "Exploring learning opportunities in online, wiki-based collaboration: a variation-theory approach". Click here to view the abstract.
Conference presentations:
- Aditomo, A. (2011). Teachers’ epistemic beliefs of science: coherence and consistency across contexts. AARE Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 27 November - 1 December 2011.
- Aditomo, A. (2011). Personal epistemology and the teaching of science. NSW IER Postgraduate Research Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, 11 November 2011.
Thesis work
| Project title | Degree | Supervisor |
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| The role students' personal epistemologies in inquiry-based learning. | PhD | Professor Peter Reimann |
Selected publications
Conference papers
- Aditomo, A. & Reimann, P. (2009). Identifying learning opportunities in online collaboration: a variation theory approach. In Kong, S.C., Ogata, H., Arnseth, H.C., Chan, C.K.K., Hirashima, T., Klett, F., Lee, J.H.M., Liu, C.C., Looi, C.K., Milrad, M., Mitrovic, A., Nakabayashi, K., Wong, S.L., Yang, S.J.H. (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education (pp. 261–268). Hong Kong, 30 November - 4 December 2009.
- Reimann, P., Aditomo, A., & Thompson, K. (2009). Students engaged in collaborative modelling. In O’Malley, C., Suthers D., Reimann P., Dimitracopoulou A. (Ed) Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (1). Rhodes, Greece, 8-13 June 2009.
- Aditomo, A, Reimann, P. (2007). Learning from virtual interaction: A review of research on online synchronous groups. In Clark Chinn, Gijsbert Erkens, Sadhana Puntambekar Mice, Minds and Society, CSCL 2007, The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Conference 2007, Volume 8, Part 1 (pp. 56–65). Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, July 16-21 2007.