How We Think and Talk About Facilitation

Fumitoshi Kato
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Fumitoshi Kato: Keio University, Japan, fk@sfc.keio.ac.jp

Simulation & Gaming, 2010, vol. 41, issue 5, 694-704

Abstract: Over the past few years, the notion of ‘facilitation’ has been increasingly gaining attention and acceptance in Japan, especially in the context of education and training. Today, Japanese educators think and talk about facilitation, even if it is not yet clear what facilitation is. Interestingly enough, the term facilitation does not exist in the Japanese language. Even so, the term fa-shi-ri-tei-shon somehow seems important to use, and by ‘importing’ and using it, we feel more comfortable talking about certain aspects of our communication processes. Without it we may not feel able to say anything about these aspects of communication processes. Conceiving of the act of facilitation as utilizing a set of tools enables research and writing on facilitation to examine its outcomes or effectiveness rather than being limited to considerations of it as a process. This article introduces and applies the idea of social construction of technology in order to examine the notion of facilitation.

Keywords: closure; communication; drawing out ideas; facilitation; facilitation tools; images of facilitation; interpretive flexibility; Japan; leadership; on-the-spot experiment; research; SCOT (social construction of technology); social action; social construction; socially constructed concepts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/1046878109334010

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