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Gabriel Scheidecker

@G_Scheidecker

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Anthropologist working on #childhood, #parenting, #migration, and early Intervention. Prof @UZH_en, PI of Starting Grant "Saving Brains?"

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For the first time, @TheLancet has published a critical paper on the science of Early Childhood Development (#ECD). As an interdisciplinary and international group of authors, we call on the ECD field to move beyond the widespread use of deficit models.
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RT @JDaviesPhD: The most dangerous people in psychiatry aren't the small minority of pharma-funded 'Key Opinion Leaders', but the huge majo….
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RT @CPCS_UniKent: A new look at the turn to 'parenting'. @RosEdwards2 @nmcdnyc
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RT @d_krugman: I know nuance breaks our brains these days but we need to be serious about this "forecast." Africa will not simply roll over….
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RT @nomadaesthetic: An Inuit woman named Keira, living in Denmark, has been forced to hand over her newborn baby, to state authorities just….
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RT @VioDemos_Chile: 🔹La investigadora #VioDemos, en @CentroCIIR y académica de @Antropologia_UC, @murreta, organizó la mesa "Ethnographic i….
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RT @maxantonynewman: Beyond deficit models in early childhood development science!
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RT @seyeabimbola: “We are concerned the new Lancet Series [Early Childhood Development & the Next 1000 Days] maintains at its core, a defic….
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RT @dandaraoramos: Happy to be part of this joint effort 💪🏾.
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RT @safmuffin: @G_Scheidecker @TheLancet Great paper! Thank you for highlighting these limiting and harmful western biases. I think paediat….
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Gabriel Scheidecker
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Thank you @Tatek Abebe, .@seyeabimbola , @reluctantprof3 , @Willem E Frankenhuis, @Heidi Keller, @YukoMunakata1 , @Bolaolusanya , @dandaraoramos, @muneera_rasheed for this joint effort.
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Looking forward this talk by Emely Yates-Doerr at the University of Zürich If you wish to participate online, please write me an email: Gabriel.scheidecker@uzh.ch
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Call for papers – Childhood journal has commissioned @murreta and me to edit a special issue on: "Children as Caregivers: Ethnographic Perspectives and Political Implications." .Please consider submitting an abstract by June 20, 2025.
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RT @CLPN_ac: Call for articles: "Children as caregivers: Ethnographic.perspectives and political implications.". For a special issue of the….
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RT @CPCS_UniKent: New paper from @G_Scheidecker on the harms of parenting support; a must-read depth update on how the policing of families….
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"Help Can Harm." In this new paper in Ethos, 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.
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RT @johnbasil: 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….
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RT @Bethlehemtekola: The one question I've in mind (and that matters) every time I read works on reflexivity:. How is this beneficial to pa….
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RT @afua_td_imoh: Registration for the first international child and family conference @BristolUni is now open @SChildhoods @G_Scheidecke….
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Two recent articles highlight the scientifically unsound and ethically problematic use of one-size-fits-all measures in Early Childhood Development globally. It’s time for the #ECD field to take action. @mnvrsngh .
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