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Author Sahni, Urvashi, author.

Title Reaching for the sky : empowering girls through education / Urvashi Sahni
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF (xx, 276 pages)) : illustrations, map, portraits
Contents Letting girls learn -- The girls' own stories -- Education myself : valuable lessons for self and others -- The story of Prerna -- Building a universe of care -- Enabling learning : building a web of support -- Developing a feminist consciousness : dialogical circles of empowerment -- Finding self, finding home : using drama for self-work -- Empowerment as a social act : from self-work to social work -- Learning outcomes and beyond -- Scaling Prerna -- Reframing girls' education -- Epilogue: Educating boys for gender justice -- Appendixes. A. Caste in India : a brief note. B. Methodology. C. Historical backdrop of girls' education
Summary Since 2003 a privately funded high school has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh, in northeast India. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna Girls School, tells the stories of how the school has changed the lives of more than 5,000 girls and their families. Most important, this book tells those stories from the perspectives of the girls themselves, rather than through a remote academic perspective. -- publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Prerna Girls School
Girls -- Education -- India -- Uttar Pradesh
Girls' schools -- India -- Uttar Pradesh
Sex discrimination in education -- India
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Girls -- Education
Girls' schools
Sex discrimination in education
India
India -- Uttar Pradesh
Form Electronic book
Author Brookings Institution, issuing body.
LC no. 2017285189
ISBN 9780815730392
081573039X