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Gabriel Scheidecker

@gabrielscheidecker.bsky.social
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Anthropologist working on #childhood, #parenting, #migration, and #early Intervention in Vietnam, Madagascar, Germany. Assist Prof @UZH, PI of Starting Grant "Saving Brains?" scholar.google.com/citations?user=6…

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Emily Yates-Doerr @eyatesd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
An important short correspondence by @gabrielscheidecker.bsky.social et al. pointing out that the Lancet’s ‘Next 1000 Days’ series risks repeating “a deficit model, which can cause harm by promoting negative stereotypes about people living in poverty.” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Beyond deficit models in early childhood development science
We appreciate the efforts of the Lancet Series, Early Childhood Development and the Next 1000 Days, to draw attention to the needs of young children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).1...
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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“We urge early childhood development researchers to systematically address well documented biases when assessing needs and to shift towards approaches that fully recognise and build on existing, context-adapted practices, expertise, and aspirations of caregivers and their children around the world.”
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Gabriel Scheidecker @gabrielscheidecker.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Finally out! For the first time, The Lancet has published a critical paper on the science of Early Childhood Development (#ECD). As an interdisciplinary team of authors, we call on the ECD field move beyond the widespread use of deficit-based models. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Beyond deficit models in early childhood development science
We appreciate the efforts of the Lancet Series, Early Childhood Development and the Next 1000 Days, to draw attention to the needs of young children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).1...
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Gabriel Scheidecker @gabrielscheidecker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
In our new paper "Help can harm," Nga T.T. Mai and I examine the unintended consequences of parenting interventions among Vietnamese migrant families in Germany. We argue that such harmful effects deserve much closer attention. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ethos | AAA Sociocultural Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we explore the unintended consequences of parenting support and child protection services for families who have migrated from Vietnam to Berlin, Germany. We identify such negative cons....
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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I'm hiring! 2 x PhDs and 1 x PostDoc, to work with me at Uni Zurich on a project investigating how semantic patterns differ by geographic region. Linguistic typology, data science, spatial analysis, phylogenetic methods, potential fieldwork... REPOST 🙏 www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html
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Kat Chzhen @katchzhen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Excellent essay by Francesca Mezzenzana and @gabrielscheidecker.bsky.social questioning the assumptions behind Western-style parenting interventions aeon.co/essays/the-p...
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The problem with parenting interventions in the Global South | Aeon Essays
Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions
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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
It's great to see our #realistsynthesis on "Unfair knowledge practices in global health" is the most read & shared HPP article in 2024 blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/hppdebated/2... Please read it to see the many ways epistemic injustice manifests in how we do (global) health equity work doi.org/10.1093/heap...
Title page of an article titled "Unfair knowledge practices in global health: a realist synthesis".
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Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group @acyig.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Fab essay from member @gabrielscheidecker.bsky.social: "early childhood science implicitly promotes Western, urban middle-class skills and behaviours... a child has reached their full potential when they behave and think like a Western, urban middle-class child." aeon.co/essays/the-p...
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The problem with parenting interventions in the Global South | Aeon Essays
Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions
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Decolonize Berlin @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Am Sonntag wurde gewählt, bald könnten die Koalitionsverhandlungen für eine neue Regierung beginnen. Wir fordern, dass die Aufarbeitung der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte im Koalitionsvertrag verankert wird. Diese Forderung kann hier unterstützt werden: weact.campact.de/petitions/au...
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Aufarbeitung der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte im Koalitionsvertrag verankern!
Die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Kolonialismus und seinen Wirkungen bis in die Gegenwart stößt in Deutschland auf zunehmendes Interesse. Auf zivilgesellschaftlicher Ebene erforschen lokale Initiativen k...
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 27/02/2025
Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions
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Is there something wrong with parenting in the Global South? | Aeon Essays
Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 27/02/2025
Parasites can be hard to love. However, as researchers in this video argue, with up to one in three species at risk of extinction, we might want to start to seriously consider which parasites may be worth saving. @sciam.bsky.social
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‘Save the parasites’ may not be a popular rallying cry – but it could be a vital one | Aeon Videos
One in three parasitic species is in danger. Here’s why humans may need to power through the ‘ick’ to save them
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Gabriel Scheidecker @gabrielscheidecker.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Our latest attempt to you reach beyond anthropology: aeon.co/essays/the-p...
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The problem with parenting interventions in the Global South | Aeon Essays
Early childhood development interventions in the Global South is a huge industry built on highly questionable assumptions
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