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- Title
Unpacking the discourses of stunting in Indonesian early childhood education and parenting.
- Authors
Adriany, Vina; Tesar, Marek
- Abstract
This paper interrogates the discourses of stunting in Indonesia and its links to early childhood education. Here, stunting is analysed via Foucault's work, with data stemming from a long‐term ethnography study and analysis of relevant policy documents in Indonesia. We argue the discourses of stunting have been regulating children, teachers and parents by acting as a form of biopower of governing rationalities. Focusing merely on the individual and nutrition aspects, the discourses overlook larger societal problems. In such a space, the children, teachers and parents become a site of the state's surveillance and are produced as docile bodies.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; GOVERNMENT regulation; POLICY science research; PARENTING; EARLY intervention (Education); RESEARCH funding; DISCOURSE analysis; TEACHERS; GROWTH disorders; NUTRITION policy; SECONDARY analysis
- Publication
Children & Society, 2023, Vol 37, Issue 2, p311
- ISSN
0951-0605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/chso.12593