Facilitators should both affirm an expressed demand and problematize its underlying dimension

Evidence

The solution lies in synthesis: the leaders must on the one hand identify with the people’s demand for higher salaries, while on the other they must pose the meaning of that very demand as a problem. By doing this, the leaders pose as a problem a real, concrete, historical situation of which the salary demand is one dimension. It will thereby become clear that salary demands alone cannot comprise a definitive solution. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 592

Categorization

• SEED: Concrete example of the ‘both/and’ facilitation move — the single most actionable template for redesigning a learning situation.
• DEEPTHINKING: The most precise, transferable account given so far of what ‘posing a problem’ actually looks like — affirmation plus problematization, never one without the other.
• XREF: connects to: Facilitation is a decisive condition for deliberation-induced depolarization. — Didier Caluwaerts et al., Deliberation and Polarization: A…, 121