Friends or foes?

Being placed together with primary education students in the Minor is a great opportunity to learn new things, no doubt. It gives you the chance to see how others see education, their aims, their ways of doing. I have the feeling that us, pre-primary education students, are more homogeneous that our primary education classmates. Maybe it is just because we are much less, so there isn't a chance for much diversity among us. We share similar values and approaches to education.

I guess there could be a more polite way to put it, but since this is mainly for myself to read, I will be quite blunt: us, pre-primary education students, believe that many of our primary education classmates act in favour of the traditional school in general. We are beginning to repeat the pattern we have experienced in our previous in-school trainings: primary teachers think that children are not "prepared enough" when they finish pre-primary, and pre-primary teachers feel that primary teachers are only concerned about contents.

One of my group mates in the mini-lesson we have recently prepared explained it very clearly: we should have HH6, HH7, HH8... instead of LH1, LH2, LH3..., meaning that the ways of doing and the principles of pre-primary should be fed into primary education (taking into account the developmental differences among children in both stages, of course). I have the feeling that the traditional school has managed to survive in primary and secondary education, while it has been wiped out in pre-primary and university. But this is just a feeling which could well be due to my prejudice, and being as we are together, it would be great if we could discuss this openly.