Yhdessä oppimista ja arvopohdintaa opettajankoulutuksessa

This article describes a study about a phenomenon-based learning project that involved a group of first year student teachers and their lecturers. The project was carried out on the Suomenlinna World Heritage Site. We explore the learning opportunities the project provides to the students, and how core values are dis- cussed during the process. The data are the students’ reflective texts and video- recorded interactions that we analysed using content analysis and conversation analysis. The results show that learning is manifested as a set of emotional and practical experiences, problem solving, reflections and collaboration, and the ex- periences derive from working together. The conversation analysis sheds light on the process: it shows how the students move from disagreement to consensus when planning a task. At the beginning of the phenomenon-based learning pro- cess, the students expressed uncertainty and dissatisfaction. However, during the assignment, the uncertainty gradually disappeared and was replaced by creativi- ty, wonder and cooperation, and the joy of working together. During the process, the students also reflected on what is valuable in life and what pupils should learn at school. An awareness of values also emerged more generally as the students reflected on identity, belonging to a group, and social inequality in the past and today.