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Indonesian early childhood education policies systematically marginalize and subordinate caregiving work through discursive mechanisms of abjection driven by a patriarchal logic. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how early childhood education policies in Indonesia construct, position, and marginalise caregiving work despite its essential role in education and state governance.

September 4, 2026Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

Indispensable expulsion: Care in Indonesian early childhood education policy

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Feminist discourse analysis reveals systematic marginalisation of caregiving in Indonesian early childhood education policy, highlighting structural subordination of female-dominated labour.

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To examine how early childhood education policies in Indonesia construct, position, and marginalise caregiving work despite its essential role in education and state governance.
Conducted a post-structuralist feminist discourse analysis of Indonesian legal documents, educational standards, and curricula spanning from 2003 to 2025.
Applied theoretical concepts of the 'maternal body' and abjection drawing on Kristeva and Butler to examine policy depictions of educator competency and identity.
Identified four structural mechanisms marginalising care: the legal exclusion of nonformal carers from the 'teacher' title, the reduction of teacher bodies to functional readiness rather than care competency, the relegation of caregiving to the lowest tier of competency hierarchies, and the dissolution of the carer into child-centred agency.
Showed that early childhood education policies systematically subordinate caregiving labour and knowledge to patriarchal governance models during professionalisation.

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Yulida Pangastuti (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9a85e75d9e33f25c6314ad https://doi.org/10.1177/14639491261484393

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September 4, 2026Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood

Indispensable expulsion: Care in Indonesian early childhood education policy

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Authors

YPYulida Pangastuti

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Overview

Feminist discourse analysis reveals systematic marginalisation of caregiving in Indonesian early childhood education policy, highlighting structural subordination of female-dominated labour.

Key Points

To examine how early childhood education policies in Indonesia construct, position, and marginalise caregiving work despite its essential role in education and state governance.
Conducted a post-structuralist feminist discourse analysis of Indonesian legal documents, educational standards, and curricula spanning from 2003 to 2025.
Applied theoretical concepts of the 'maternal body' and abjection drawing on Kristeva and Butler to examine policy depictions of educator competency and identity.
Identified four structural mechanisms marginalising care: the legal exclusion of nonformal carers from the 'teacher' title, the reduction of teacher bodies to functional readiness rather than care competency, the relegation of caregiving to the lowest tier of competency hierarchies, and the dissolution of the carer into child-centred agency.
Showed that early childhood education policies systematically subordinate caregiving labour and knowledge to patriarchal governance models during professionalisation.

Cite This Study

Yulida Pangastuti (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9a85e75d9e33f25c6314ad https://doi.org/10.1177/14639491261484393

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