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Challenging Attachment Theory: Ethnocentrism, Science, and Child Development

Author(s) : Heidi Keller

Reviews and Endorsements

'This book is a tour de force, wherein Keller shares her conceptual brilliance and knowledge in informative and entertaining ways. It is an essential aid in increasing inclusivity, and decreasing colonial practices in how we interact with children and families. Amid constructive criticism of current theory and practice in developmental psychology (rightly characterized as WEIRD, pertaining to mostly Western middle-income contexts), Keller brings illuminating descriptions of children developing within a wide variety of ecocultural contexts around the world. I can easily conceive of this book as becoming integral in the education of University students, of Ethics Review Boards, and of practitioners, from pediatricians to teachers, from those providing parenting advice to those providing early interventions. This book is an exemplary presentation of the need for and benefits of viewing childhood within eco-cultural context.'
Prof Dr Kim A. Bard, Professor of Comparative Developmental Psychology, Affiliate Scientist, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

'This is a book that begins with life and compels theory to respond. Emerging from a trajectory that moves from kitchens to communities, from observation to uneasy understanding, it unsettles the long-standing assumption that culture is a variable to be added to psychological models. Here, culture appears as the very ground of perception, the condition through which development becomes intelligible. Situated within ongoing efforts to decolonize psychology, this book does something more demanding: it does not simply call for change, but demonstrates how such change emerges from a lifetime of engagement with people, practices, and places that resist easy translation. It will be of interest not only to developmental psychologists, but to anyone concerned with how knowledge travels, transforms, and sometimes fails.'
Prof Dr. Nandita Chaudhary, Professor to the Department of Cultural Psychology, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador da Bahia