Breaking Character Disclosing the Methodological Mess of Metarhetorical Attunement and the Kairotic Hinge
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This article breaks from the traditional structure of social science research reports to offer an alternative approach to sharing findings by willfully wading through the methodological mess of research. By narratively reporting results from a site-based study of an acute care simulation, I treat disclosure of my analytical journey as a productive method for introducing and unpacking two key constructs that emerged from my research: “metarhetorical attunement” and “kairotic hinges”; constructs that implicate and seek to develop our critical, rhetorical understandings of time, place, and (in)action. Furthermore, not only do I describe how these constructs operate within a simulation setting, but I model my personal use of them as a researcher participating in a community of practice.
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