Empowerment in Action by Audrey Mullender Dave Ward Jennie Fleming

Author:Audrey Mullender, Dave Ward, Jennie Fleming [Audrey Mullender, Dave Ward, Jennie Fleming]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Social Work, General, Human Services, Sociology, Political Science, Public Policy, Social Services & Welfare
ISBN: 9781137368485
Google: t04dBQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education
Published: 2013-12-04T05:21:49+00:00

Techniques used to ask the question WHY?

Specifically, at this stage those responsible for facilitation should see that topics come from the group and are kept in play long enough for broader understanding to develop. Just as the brainstorming and other exercises asking the question WHAT? had this purpose, so the ideas which were forthcoming then should now be handed back to the group in a ‘problem-posing’ way (Freire 1972) in order for the group to gain more awareness of the total issue. Hope and Timmel (1999) offer the ‘But Why?’ method. It is an exercise we have found can be readily adapted to any situation or group (Berdan et al. 2006, pp. 127–131).

‘The child has a septic foot.’

‘But why?’

‘Because she stepped on a thorn.’

‘But why?’

‘Because she had no shoes.’

‘But why has she no shoes?’

‘Because her father cannot afford to buy her any.’

‘But why can he not afford to buy her shoes?’

‘Because he is paid very little as a farm labourer.’

‘But why is he paid so little?’

‘Because the farm labourers have no union.’

(ibid., p. 79)

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