This study examines storytelling episodes in 13 video-recorded and fully transcribed post-simulation debriefings from a maritime navigation course. The aim is to scrutinize the facilitators’ practice of telling stories from the sea during debriefings, to explore the organization and inner function of storytelling in debriefing. A combination of dialogical-performative analysis and a structural narrative model was conducted to analyze and contextualize stories from working at sea in the debriefing practice. The analysis shows how storytelling in debriefing frequently occurred, and was mainly occasioned by critical discussions about students’ mistakes during the simulated scenario. In such a critical debriefing practice, the results show how telling stories about lived experiences of professional dilemmas and mistakes serves multiple functions. In line with research results from previous studies on storytelling in higher education, this study demonstrates how storytelling connects the simulated event to the professional responsibilities on board seagoing ships. In addition, storytelling might also serve face-saving purposes in this critical debriefing practice, which raises important questions regarding psychological safety and the debriefing climate.

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从海上讲故事：促进海上模拟后情况汇报中的专业学习

这项研究检查了海上航行课程中13个视频记录和完全转录的模拟后汇报中的讲故事情节。目的是审查主持人在汇报过程中从海上讲故事的做法，以探讨在汇报过程中讲故事的组织和内部功能。结合了对话执行分析和结构化叙事模型，以在汇报实践中对海上工作的故事进行分析和情境化。该分析显示了在汇报过程中讲故事的方式是如何频繁发生的，并且主要是在模拟场景中有关学生错误的批判性讨论中引起的。在这种关键的汇报实践中，结果显示了讲述职业困境和错误的真实经历的故事如何发挥多种功能。与先前有关高等教育讲故事的研究结果相一致，本研究证明了讲故事如何将模拟事件与海船上的专业职责联系起来。此外，在这种关键的汇报方式中，讲故事也可能起到保护面子的作用，这提出了有关心理安全和汇报环境的重要问题。