Constructs of Caring in Indonesia’s Early Childhood Education (Historical Review and Ethnographical Research)

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10.2991/assehr.k.200808.057How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Early childhood education in Indonesia, early childhood education in NTT, women’s caring practices, maternalism

Abstract

The role of women as the primary source of the ECE workforce has long been debated in the academic arena. In Indonesia, female ECE teachers are always preferred due to the maternalist perceptions that lead to under-appreciation of their labours. Based on historical data and ethnographic research, this article aims at demonstrating how caring has gone through a multiple process of re-interpretations that produced multiple meanings. These interpretations affect teachers’ in the field as much as it affects the children. However, teachers are able to show their active roles and negotiated performativity, although their actions cannot exclusively exclude from the religious, colonial, social, political settings.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yulida Pangastuti
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/10
TI  - Constructs of Caring in Indonesia’s Early Childhood Education (Historical Review and Ethnographical Research)
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Early Childhood Education and Parenting 2019 (ECEP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 291
EP  - 295
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200808.057
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200808.057
ID  - Pangastuti2020
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