When a Phenomenon-Based University Course Went Online: Students’ Experiences and Reflections After Sauna Bathing

Lili-Ann Wolff (), Emma Heikkilä (), Kirsi Wallinheimo () and Wilhelm Blomberg ()
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Lili-Ann Wolff: University of Helsinki
Emma Heikkilä: University of Helsinki
Kirsi Wallinheimo: University of Helsinki
Wilhelm Blomberg: University of Helsinki

A chapter in Online Education During COVID-19 and Beyond, 2024, pp 31-63 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents and discusses results from data in form of learning diaries that a group of Finnish students wrote on a distance university course arranged during the COVID-19 lockdown. Initially, the course was planned to take place at a World Heritage site, but because of the pandemic, it had to be released online, and in the studentsStudents’ own outdoor surroundings with limited physical interaction between the students. The first version of the course was run before the COVID-19COVID-19 pandemicCovid-19, pandemic, but it had to be totally modified first to an online version, and then to a hybrid version during the pandemic restrictionsRestrictions. For this reason, the World Heritage site as learning environment and focus had to quickly incorporate a current Finnish Cultural HeritageCultural heritage, the sauna bathingSauna bathing culture, in the course. The students were instructed to write or record their diaries in the form of stream of consciousnessStream of consciousness after their sauna bathingSauna bathing or other bathing, and these diaries were used as data in our study. The theoretical approach of the study is phenomenology, and we analysed the diaries employing hermeneutic/interpretativeInterpretative diary phenomenology. The result shows that the sauna diariesSauna diaries were a successful course element that made it possible for the studentsStudents to express themselves and reflect on their daily lives in a critical situation, but also to reflect deeply on the course, and their own role in that context.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49353-9_3

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