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Reaching for the Sky : Empowering Girls Through Education /

Since 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna Girls School, has written a compelling narrative of how this modest school...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sahni, Urvashi (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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