Open AccessNegotiating local and glocal discourse in kindergarten: Stories from Indonesia
Author(s) -
Vina Adriany
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
pedagogický časopis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1338-2144
pISSN - 1338-1563
DOI - 10.2478/jped-2019-0004
Subject(s) - negotiation , glocalization , space (punctuation) , neoliberalism (international relations) , sociology , character (mathematics) , gender studies , political science , social science , globalization , linguistics , law , philosophy , geometry , mathematics
This paper aims to explore how kindergartens in Indonesia become a space to negotiate local and global discourses. Informed by postcolonial theories, it seeks to identify a hybrid space that goes beyond the binary between South and North. Based on fieldwork in three different kindergartens in Indonesia, this paper illuminate different forms of negotiation adopted by the kindergartens. Two most pervasive global discourses found are related with child-centredness and neoliberalism. The kindergartens negotiate these discourses through a social aspiration, character building, and religious values discourses. The finding suggests how juxtaposed ideas continue to intersect with one another ECE.