Critical developmental science: life course trajectories in the 1982 Pelotas birth cohort study

该项目探讨了在科学和激进分子社区中，被认为是可推广的发展规范是如何被复制、挑战，有时甚至被破坏的。该项目将以民族志研究为基础，阐明发育多样性是如何形成的。该项目将使不同的利益相关者受益，包括科学界、政策制定者、教育工作者、医疗保健从业人员和社区组织。除了学术成果之外，该项目还将产生一个独一无二的纵向民族志数据库，一份跨学科和参与式研究方法白皮书，以及一个可供科学家，特别是早期职业研究人员参与民族志基础科学研究的无障碍基础设施。该项目整合了科学技术研究（STS）、人类学、发展科学和社区咨询委员会的观点，形成了一门关键的发展科学——一种跨学科、文化敏感和对社会负责的研究人类发展的方法。作为首个以全球南方为重点的队列研究，该研究考察了35年来的发展多样性，并在三个关键领域进行了创新。首先，它将产生新的概念工具来理解非欧美背景下的发展，挑战差异的病理化。其次，它探讨了对文化敏感的发展知识的需求意识与其更广泛的吸收之间存在差距的原因，研究了与正常/异常区分和价值等级相关的价值观是如何持续的。第三，为了更好地将变革理论化，它建立在当地利益相关者如何在主流科学、政策和公共辩论中使用批判理论的基础上，研究专家、活动家和方言形式的批判和反身性如何在实践中发挥作用。通过展示以全球南方为重点的关键发展科学的协作制作，这项研究将有助于知识从南方流向北方。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The project explores how developmental norms presumed to be generalizable are reproduced, challenged, and sometimes disrupted within scientific and activist communities. Based on an ethnographic study, the project will elucidate how developmental diversity takes shape. The project will benefit diverse stakeholders, including the scientific community, policymakers, educators, healthcare practitioners, and community organizations. Beyond academic outputs, the project will generate a one-of-a-kind longitudinal ethnographic database, a white paper on interdisciplinary and participatory research methods, and an accessible infrastructure for scientists, especially early career researchers, to engage with ethnographically grounded science studies.This project integrates perspectives from science and technology studies (STS), anthropology, developmental sciences, and a community advisory board to form a critical developmental science—an interdisciplinary, culturally sensitive, and socially responsible approach to studying human development. As the first cohort study with a focus on the Global South, it examines developmental diversity over 35 years, and innovates in three key areas. Firstly, it will generate new conceptual tools for understanding development in a non-Euro-American context, challenging the pathologization of difference. Secondly, it explores the reasons for the gap between awareness of the need for culturally sensitive developmental knowledge and its broader uptake, examining how values related to normal/abnormal distinctions and hierarchies of worthiness endure. Thirdly, to better theorize change, it builds on how local stakeholders use critical theory in mainstream science, policy, and public debate, studying how expert, activist, and vernacular forms of critique and reflexivity work in practice. By showcasing the collaborative making of critical developmental science with a focus on the Global South, this research will contribute to the flow of knowledge from South to North.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.