Author:
Doris Allhutter
Affiliation:
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Keyword(s):
Co-construction, Collective work practices, Theories-in-use, Deconstruction, Situated learning, Trading zones.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Service-Oriented Software Engineering and Management
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Software and Systems Development Methodologies
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Software Engineering
;
Software Process Improvement
Abstract:
Grounded within qualitative research on software engineering and science and technology studies, the paper introduces a deconstructivist methodology for software engineering. Software engineering is a socio-technological process of negotiation embedded in organizational and societal contexts. Thus, social dimensions such as hidden assumptions of use contexts (e.g. based on diversity aspects such as age, gender, class or cultural diversity) implicitly inform development practices. To foster reflective competences in this area, the paper suggests using deconstruction as a tool to disclose collective processes of meaning construction. For this purpose, the idea of introducing a deconstructive process to software engineering is linked to approaches of practice-based, situated and context-sensitive learning.