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SUMMARY:Gabriel Scheidecker: "Anthropology and Early Childhood Development 
 Interventions: Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries"
DESCRIPTION:Since the 2000s\, international development and global health h
 ave increasingly moved toward evidence-based behavior change interventions
  as a means to promote health and development. A good example is the field
  of Early Childhood Development interventions in the Global South (Global 
 ECD). Global ECD presents itself as a strategy to boost economic growth an
 d sustainable development. Its main method is to modify parenting practice
 s in ways that are believed to optimize young children’s cognitive and s
 ocio-emotional development. However\, the scientific evidence underlying t
 hese programs is biased: it largely draws on research conducted in Western
  middle-class contexts and overlooks long-standing ethnographic research d
 ocumenting the diversity of parenting practices and caregiving arrangement
 s. In this lecture\, Gabriel Scheidecker introduces the field of Global EC
 D\, examines some of its core assumptions in light of ethnographic evidenc
 e\, and argues that anthropology and related disciplines need to engage mo
 re actively and directly with behavior change interventions such as Global
  ECD.\\r\\nGabriel Scheidecker is Assistant Professor at the Department of
  Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK)\, University of Zurich. H
 e leads the project "Saving Brains? Applying Ethnography to Early Childhoo
 d Interventions in the Global South" (2023-2028)\, funded by an SNSF Start
 ing Grant. His research focuses on childhood across various settings\, par
 enting support\, and early childhood development interventions. 
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Since the 2000s\, international development and global health
  have increasingly moved toward evidence-based behavior change interventio
 ns as a means to promote health and development. A good example is the fie
 ld of Early Childhood Development interventions in the Global South (Globa
 l ECD). Global ECD presents itself as a strategy to boost economic growth 
 and sustainable development. Its main method is to modify parenting practi
 ces in ways that are believed to optimize young children’s cognitive and
  socio-emotional development. However\, the scientific evidence underlying
  these programs is biased: it largely draws on research conducted in Weste
 rn middle-class contexts and overlooks long-standing ethnographic research
  documenting the diversity of parenting practices and caregiving arrangeme
 nts. In this lecture\, Gabriel Scheidecker introduces the field of Global 
 ECD\, examines some of its core assumptions in light of ethnographic evide
 nce\, and argues that anthropology and related disciplines need to engage 
 more actively and directly with behavior change interventions such as Glob
 al ECD.</p>\n<p>Gabriel Scheidecker is Assistant Professor at the Departme
 nt of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK)\, University of Zuri
 ch. He leads the project "Saving Brains? Applying Ethnography to Early Chi
 ldhood Interventions in the Global South" (2023-2028)\, funded by an SNSF 
 Starting Grant. His research focuses on childhood across various settings\
 , parenting support\, and early childhood development interventions.&nbsp\
 ;</p>
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