Doubting the OBJECT World

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Abstract:Object Oriented approaches (00) may be placed within functionalism. It is argued that we should not use 00 for analysing human worlds. OBJECTs are neither presentations of humans nor equal to humans as the literature often suggests.But everything which is assumed without question, which is taken for granted in our intercourse with one another and nature is what, at the given time, is called knowledge. Thinking on the contrary starts ... from doubt or uncertainty. It marks an inquiring, hunting, searching attitude, instead of one of mastery and possession [8]. THE ONTOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE OBJECT WORLDThe OBJECT is the basic unit in a description of an OBJECT world, which functions as a script for an 'interaction play' of cooperating OBJECTs. A presentation of an OBJECT world is like performance in theatre. If the OBJECTs are models of real entities then the performance is only a modelled presentation of a part of real world interaction. OBJECTs are actors in a play, with predetermined dynamic and static properties described in classes of which they are instances. In an OBJECT class the dynamic and static properties are bundled together, interdependent and encapsulated. Every OBJECT is an input-output-system with invisible internal behaviour and information. During the performance only the OBJECT surface is visible. The environment of an OBJECT consists of all

Questioning Gender in E-learning and its Relation to Computer Science – Spaces for Design, Working, and Learning

“…Therefore it is essential to return the responsibility for the design of their personal learning and working processes to the students. Through the gender analysis of object orientation in Informatics (Crutzen 2000a(Crutzen , 2000b it is known that the diversity of and in learning objects only grows, if the answer to: "When, how, and by whom might learning objects be changed?" is given situated and not predetermined.…”

“…A detailed gender analysis of the OO paradigm in Informatics can be found in(Crutzen, 2000a(Crutzen, , 2000b …”