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

该项目探索了被认为是可推广的发展规范如何在科学和活动家社区内被复制、挑战，有时甚至被破坏。基于一项人种学研究，该项目将阐明发展多样性是如何形成的。该项目将使不同的利益攸关方受益，包括科学界、政策制定者、教育工作者、医疗从业者和社区组织。除了学术成果，该项目还将产生一个独一无二的纵向人种学数据库，一份关于跨学科和参与性研究方法的白皮书，以及一个可供科学家，特别是早期职业研究人员参与人种学研究的基础设施。该项目综合了科学和技术研究(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--一种研究人类发展的跨学科、文化敏感和社会责任的方法。作为第一个以全球南方为重点的队列研究，它考察了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，用于在非欧美背景下理解发展，挑战差异的病理性。其次，它探讨了意识到对文化敏感的发展知识的需要与其更广泛的吸收之间存在差距的原因，考察了与正常/不正常的区分和价值等级相关的价值观如何持久。第三，为了更好地将变化理论化，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性理论的基础上，研究专家、活动家和本土化形式的批评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合作制造，这项研究将有助于知识从南到北的流动。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.