“Anything Can Be Used to Stimulate Child Development”: Early Childhood Education and Development in Indonesia as a Durable Assemblage

Newberry, Jan

doi:10.1017/s0021911816001650

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“…For these idealized gendered and indebted subjects, the tempo of appropriation is both sped up and punctuated by a steady repayment schedule. Th e relationship between responsibilization and debt deepens the unacknowledged links between their unwaged species-being labor and care of their communities (Newberry 2017).…”

Section: Finding the Time For Socially Necessary Labormentioning

confidence: 99%

Women and children together and apart

Newberry¹,

Rosen²

2020

Focaal

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AbstractIn what ways, and to what effects, are proliferating temporalities of appropriation in financialized capitalism transforming or transformed by those of social reproductive labor? More specifically, how are woman-child relations affected when social reproduction becomes a site of immediate, not just indirect, capital accumulation through relations of debt? To answer these questions, we take up species-being as the labor relation that anchors socially necessary labor and links women and children by attending to three temporal modalities of accumulation via social reproductive labor: scholarization, (re)familization, and debt servicing. We argue that differentiated tempos in the appropriation of surplus value, operating to “fix” contradictions between capital's short- and long-term interests, are critical sources of tension between women and children in the meeting of needs. Producing and mapping divergent rhythms of appropriation on to different groups may both link diverse women and children, and put their interests at odds.

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Section: Finding the Time For Socially Necessary Labormentioning

confidence: 99%

Women and children together and apart

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Rosen²

2020

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“…The number of researches focusing on early childhood teachers is very limited. Some researchers argue that PAUD relies too much on low-income communities, especially the national housewives association or PKK, the group of mothers who work voluntarily with the value of self-sustaining and egalitarian cooperation within the community (Newberry, 2017;Octarra & Hendriati, 2018). It is undeniable that the financial problems varied among communities could highly bring impact on the availability of the schools' funding.…”

Section: Kendal Regencymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The women's roles in community-based development itself are caused by post new order, democratisation, and the increase of the middle class (Newberry, 2017). The demand to increase the family income raises the number of women working in industry, leaving the children at home with minimum supervision.…”

Section: Kendal Regencymentioning

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PAUD is My Second Child: How Early Childhood in Indonesia Strives to Develop

Solekhah

2020

International Journal of Emerging Issues in Early Childhood Edu

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This research is aimed to investigate how the teachers of Early Childhood Education (ECE) in Indonesia or Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini (PAUD) have been struggling to sustain and develop their schools. The data was collected through a focus group discussion with teachers in Kelompok Bermain (KB) from four sub-districts in Kendal, Central Java. It is followed by individual interviews and the teachers’ document analysis. The government policies are also gathered and analysed to know to what extent the government supports the teachers and their schools. The research found that despite the different reasons for being PAUD teachers, they established (ECE) from ‘zero’ and put their schools as a priority over themselves; being proactive and communicative the only ways to develop both their professionalism and institutions; Dana Desa and Dana Kelurahan are two desired financial resources; and they hope that the government could raise their status from non-formal educators to be formal and bring equality. In conclusion, the teachers have struggled to advance their professionalism and institutions despite disadvantaged circumstances and expecting that in the future they will gain more government support.

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“…The role of women’s organizing, particularly its changes during and after the Suharto regime, has been considered by many (Budianta, 2003; Rinaldo, 2002; Robinson, 2000; Suryakusuma, 1996; Wieringa, 1993). While their domestic roles have been considered, the relationship of those roles to the support of the community is less remarked upon (but see Newberry, 2017).…”

Section: Community-based Paud and Continuities In Governance In Indonmentioning

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Payment in heaven: Can early childhood education policies help women too?

Newberry

Marpinjun

2017

Policy Futures in Education

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Based on research and activism on early childhood education and care in the area of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, we argue that the Indonesian government’s focus on early childhood has come at a cost to local women. Community-based early childhood programs are delivered by women whose work is unpaid or underpaid. Although early childhood education in the form of kindergarten has long existed in Indonesia, its extension to the very young through Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini or early childhood education programs for children aged 0–8 years is more recent. Yet, there are many contradictions in this attention to the very young child. While the programs are designed to empower young children and improve their chances of success in education, the community-based programs promoted by the government are delivered through the work of women who may be denied these same benefits. Based on our separate researches, local women offer their services in early childhood education for a variety of reasons: they believe in these programs, they feel pressured to support their communities, or they desire to improve their own chances, and often all three. Yet, the opportunity to gain more education and to become a certified teacher is extremely limited for these women. As a result, they are trapped in unskilled, low, or no-waged work. While this contradiction can be described as a result of neoliberal policy, it has been the long-standing practice of the Indonesian state to depend on women’s “volunteered” labor to deliver social service programming. Here, we challenge whether this is “neoliberal” policy or just a continued disregard for the value of the care labor in social reproduction and the simultaneous relegation of women to the “informal” sphere. We ask, what kind of policy options exist for linking the improvement of children’s education and women’s education simultaneously?

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“Anything Can Be Used to Stimulate Child Development”: Early Childhood Education and Development in Indonesia as a Durable Assemblage

Cited by 6 publications

References 42 publications

Women and children together and apart

Women and children together and apart

PAUD is My Second Child: How Early Childhood in Indonesia Strives to Develop

Payment in heaven: Can early childhood education policies help women too?

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