Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls through Education

Autor/in	Sahni, Urvashi
Titel	Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls through Education
Quelle	(2017), (304 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-8157-3038-5
Schlagwörter	Females; Womens Education; Equal Education; Poverty; Single Sex Schools; Student Empowerment; Gender Bias; Role of Education; Personal Autonomy; Social Justice; Transformative Learning; Developing Nations; Foreign Countries; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Armut; Single-sex schools; Single-sex classes; Single sex classes; Getrenntgeschlechtliche Erziehung; Schule; Studienberechtigung; Geschlechterstereotyp; Bildungsauftrag; Individuelle Autonomie; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Pädagogische Transformation; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Ausland; Indien
Abstract	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. The book focuses on how gender equality can be achieved in a patriarchal society through education. It shows how girls learn to be equal and autonomous persons in school as part of their official curriculum and how they use this learning to transform their lives and those of their families. The book's central argument is that education can be truly transformative if it addresses the everyday reality of girls' lives and responds to their special needs and challenges with respect and care. Although "Reaching for the Sky" describes just one relatively small school in one corner of India, the book's message and the stories it tells will interest anyone concerned about the necessity of girls' education, especially in developing countries. The lives of the girls at Prerna Girls School are largely representative of those of millions of girls living in poor contexts in countries where patriarchal structures and norms prevail. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01