Abstract:In recent decades, scientific knowledge, especially about the brain, has been leveraged within policies and programmes aimed at parents of infants and young children. However, the ways in which parents engage with (neuro)science, and how they value recommendations based on this vis-à-vis other forms of expertise, is not often examined. Drawing on 22 interviews, we present an analysis of how parents and care-givers in Scotland negotiated (neuroscientific) ideas about parenting that they encountered through one … Show more
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