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Reaching for the sky : empowering girls through education / Urvashi Sahni.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sahni, Urvashi, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prerna Girls School.
- Girls--Education--India--Uttar Pradesh.
- Girls.
- Girls' schools--India--Uttar Pradesh.
- Girls' schools.
- Sex discrimination in education--India.
- Sex discrimination in education.
- Girls--Education.
- India.
- India--Uttar Pradesh.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 276 pages) : illustrations, portraits, map
- Other Title:
- Empowering girls through education
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-265) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780815730392
- 081573039X
- Publisher Number:
- 99973578094
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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