In recent years, international agencies such as the World Bank have begun to fund parenting interventions to improve young children’s brain development in Global South countries. But who decides on the standards for good parenting? And what are the consequences to argue that poverty is based on poorly developed brains? In this episode, we talk with anthropologist Gabriel Scheidecker about the colonial undercurrents of early childhood interventions.
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In recent years, international agencies such as the World Bank have begun to fund parenting interventions to improve young children’s brain development in Global South countries. But who decides on the standards for good parenting? And what are the consequences to argue that poverty is based on poorly developed brains? In this episode, we talk with anthropologist Gabriel Scheidecker about the colonial undercurrents of early childhood interventions.
