Problem-posing makes previously inconspicuous background elements into objects of cognition and action.

Evidence

That which had existed objectively but had not been perceived in its deeper implications (if indeed it was perceived at all) begins to “stand out,” assuming the character of a problem and therefore of challenge. Thus, men and women begin to single out elements from their “background awareness” and to reflect upon them. These elements are now objects of their consideration, and, as such, objects of their action and cognition. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 239

Categorization

• DEFINE: Named mechanism: ‘background awareness’ to ‘objects of cognition’ to ‘objects of action’ — the perceptual shift a redesigned lesson must engineer.
• XREF: connects to: Failures flip tools from ready-to-hand to present-at-hand objects.