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Jurnal Pendidikan Progresif
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ISSN : 20879849     EISSN : 25501313     DOI : https://doi.org/10.23960/jpp
Core Subject : Education,
urnal Pendidikan Progresif is an academic journal that published all the studies in the areas of education, learning, teaching, curriculum development, learning environments, teacher education, educational technology, educational developments from various types of research such as surveys, research & development, experimental research, classroom action research, etc. Jurnal Pendidikan Progresif covers all the educational research at the level of primary, secondary, and higher education. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on Educational advancements and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews are invited for publication in all areas of Education. Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to, the following Disaster literacy and Risk Management Education Ethnopedagogy-based STEM Education Integrating technology into the curriculum: Challenges & Strategies Collaborative & Interactive Learning Tools for 21st Century learning Learning Analysis Education Management Systems Education Policy and Leadership Business Education Virtual and remote laboratories Pedagogy Enhancement with E-Learning Course Management Systems Teacher Evaluation Curriculum, Research, and Development Web-based tools for education Games and simulations in Education Learning / Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Counselor Education Student Selection Criteria in Interdisciplinary Studies Global Issues in Education and Research Technology Support for Pervasive Learning Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Human-computer Interaction in Education Mobile/ubiquitous computing in education Web 2.0, Social Networking, Blogs and Wikis Multimedia in Education Educating the educators Professional Development for teachers in ICT
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The Illusion of Meritocracy: State Hegemony and the Discourse of Exclusion in Indonesia’s Teacher Recruitment Policy Pitriyani, Pitriyani; Setiadi, Elly Malihah; Aryanti, Tutin
Jurnal Pendidikan Progresif Vol 16, No 1 (2026): Jurnal Pendidikan Progresif
Publisher : FKIP Universitas Lampung

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Abstract

The recruitment of government employees with work agreements (PPPK) is often seen as a space of hope for senior honorary officials who no longer meet the age requirements to participate in the civil servant candidate recruitment process. However, in reality, the policy is not supported by the regulatory apparatus, which sides with their position, thus placing senior honorary officers in a structural injustice. This study aims to critically examine the construction of meritocracy and state hegemony in the PPPK recruitment policy for senior honorary teachers in Lebak Regency, Banten, and to explore how they interpret their experiences and perceptions of the policy. This research used a qualitative-critical approach through the analysis of critical discourse, drawing on the thinking of Michel Foucault, or Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA), developed by Kendall & Wickham. The power of meritocracy discourse works by ignoring the appreciation of age and work experience in the 2024 PPPK recruitment, prioritizing technocratic-procedural logic, normalizing uncertainty through overlapping and inconsistent regulations, and reproducing structural gaps due to limited formation and fiscal capacity. The repeated failures experienced by senior honorary teachers give rise to a sense of disrespect and exclusion by a system perceived as more favorable to young teachers. For them, the PPPK recruitment is not a fair meritocratic mechanism, but a process that ignores devotion while increasing the uncertainty of life. The PPPK recruitment policy operates through a meritocratic discourse that prioritizes objective standards. The state positions meritocracy as the fairest means of assessing the quality of PPPK-civil servants. The state maintains its hegemony by making senior honorary teachers accept the logic of meritocracy, even though it is detrimental to them, because it is presented as the only legal route to obtaining PPPK-civil servant status. Keywords: hegemony, honorary teachers, meritocracy, PPPK recruitment.

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