What are the consequences of the ongoing process of informatisation for the democratic constitutional state? To answer this question a topical perspective of the constitutional state is provided. In this perspective, the constitutional state is portrayed as a 'house', an edifice to which new storeys and rooms have been added and furnished over the course of centuries. Each storey of this edific...

ABSTRACT In this paper, we focus on the "Question-Answer" function of the SOUTO system; the hypermedia authoring system, and classroom activities where learners make hypermedia compositions with SOUTO and discuss their compositions with the function mentioned above. Field tests of the system reveal that; 1. The Question-Answer function reconfigures social relationships in the classroom and thus...

Abstract Not only our conscious expectations, wishes and intentions are directed towards the future, but also pre- or unconscious tendencies, hunches anticipations. Using a term of Ernst Bloch, they can be summarized as not-yet-conscious . This mostly unfolds spontaneously without plan; it is not directly anticipated aimed at, rather comes to awareness in such way that subject is, were, surpris...