Research

• Sahni, U., Tripathi, M. D., & Balt, C. (2024). Unravelling Narratives of Climate Change, Gender, and Livelihood in Lucknow: An Ecofeminist Perspective. In C. Balt & K. Gallagher (Eds.), Global Climate Education and Its Discontents: Using Drama to Forge a New Way. Taylor & Francis Limited. (https://www.routledge.com/Global-Climate-Education-and-Its-Discontents-Using-Drama-to-Forge-a-New-Way/Gallagher-Balt/p/book/9781032615639?srsltid=AfmBOoqBLRihPQlCgKGThDljoN7GCkoD2R4fqxVHlxKdGqqSHFYIrzrE)
• Sahni, U. (2024). Educating Students to Think, Feel and Behave Democratically: Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF)—A Magical Space of Possibility. In: Nathan, L.F., Mendonca, J.F., Rojas Ayala, G. (eds) Designing Democratic Schools and Learning Environments. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46297-9_15)
• Sahni, U. (2022). A life knowledge approach to life skills: Empowering boys with new conceptions of masculinity. In Life Skills Education for Youth (pp. 193-213). Springer, Cham. (https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/51950/978-3-030-85214-6.pdf?sequence=1#page=203)
• Sahni, U. (2020). Methodology as ‘Resistance Aesthetics’: Young Girls in Lucknow, India Talk Back to Patriarchy. In Global Youth Citizenry and Radical Hope (pp. 67-88). Springer, Singapore. (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-1282-7_4)
• Gallagher, K., & Sahni, U. (2019). Performing care: re-imagining gender, personhood, and educational justice. Gender and Education, 31(5), 631-642. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540253.2019.1609652)
• Sahni, U. (2019). The Prerna girls’ education initiative in India: Scaling literacy to reach for the sky. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 62(5), 568-573. (https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jaal.937)
• Sahni, U. (2018). Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Empowerment Education in Post-Primary Schools in India. Policy Brief. Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution. (https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED592768)
• Sahni, U. (2017). Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls Through Education: Empowering Girls Through Education. Brookings Institution Press. (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=CtUBDgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT6&dq=urvashi+sahni&ots=JBV5ZHS01O&sig=dy15np5f5fdxrzgDUerVZuBwHGQ)
• Sahni, U. (2016). Classrooms as radical spaces of possibilities. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 21(1), 134-136. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13569783.2015.1127146)
• Miller, P. J., & Sahni, U. (2016). Resources for composing. In Child Cultures, Schooling, and Literacy (pp. 151-166). Routledge. (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315736518-12/resources-composing-peggy-miller-urvashi-sahni)
• Sahni, U. (2015). Primary education in India: Progress and challenges. The second Modi-Obama summit: Building the India-US partnership, 35-38. (https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Sahni-Primary-education-in-India.pdf)
• Hull, G., Jury, M., & Sahni, U. (2014). Developing Girls’ Agency in India across Domestic and Civic Spheres through Feminist Media Practice. # youthaction: Becoming Political in the Digital Age, 81. (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=oAUoDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA81&dq=urvashi+sahni&ots=WVhHeiPExt&sig=zuCQZXVO2gCvVgoxrx_1N92s-0M)
• Anderson, R., Robertson, C., Nabi, E., Sahni, U., & Setia, T. (2012, March). Facilitated video instruction in low resource schools. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (pp. 2-12). (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2160673.2160675)
• Sahni, U. (2012). From Learning Outcomes to Life Outcomes: What Can You Do and Who Can You Be. A Case Study in Girls’ Education in India (Center for Universal Education at Brookings, 2012). (https://www.academia.edu/download/49569856/GGS_Sahni_Print_2.pdf)
• Hull, G. A., Stornaiuolo, A., & Sahni, U. (2010). Cultural citizenship and cosmopolitan practice: Global youth communicate online. English Education, 42(4), 331-367. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/23018017)
• Saxena, A., Sahni, U., Gupta, R., Arora, A., Anderson, R., & Linnell, N. (2010, December). Evaluating facilitated video instruction for primary schools in rural india. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (pp. 1-10). (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2369220.2369259)
• Sahni, U., Gupta, R., Hull, G., Javid, P., Setia, T., Toyama, K., & Wang, R. (2008, March). Using digital video in rural Indian schools: A study of teacher development and student achievement. In annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York. (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kentaro-Toyama/publication/277296294_Paper_Presented_at_the_Annual_Meeting_of_the_American_Educational_Research_Association/links/56619ce408ae15e7462c5702/Paper-Presented-at-the-Annual-Meeting-of-the-American-Educational-Research-Association.pdf)
• Sahni, U. (2007). KEYNOTE: Drama in Education: Finding self, finding “home”. Caribbean Quarterly, 53(1-2), 37-48. (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00086495.2007.11672304)
• Kam, M., Ramachandran, D., Raghavan, A., Chiu, J., Sahni, U., & Canny, J. (2006, June). Practical considerations for participatory design with rural school children in underdeveloped regions: Early reflections from the field. In Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Interaction design and children (pp. 25-32). (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1139073.1139085)
• Kam, M., Ramachandran, D., Sahni, U., & Canny, J. (2005, July). Designing educational technology for developing regions: Some preliminary hypotheses. In Fifth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'05) (pp. 968-972). IEEE. (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1508873/)
• Wang, R., Sahni, U., Sobti, S., Garg, N., Singh, J. P., Kam, M., ... & Anderson, T. (2005). The digital studyhall. Computer Science Department, Princeton University, Tech. Rep. TR-723-05. (https://www.cs.princeton.edu/techreports/2005/723.pdf)
• Sahni, U. (2001). Children appropriating literacy: Empowerment pedagogy from young children’s perspective. Negotiating critical literacies in classrooms, 19-35. (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=1yyRAgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA21&dq=urvashi+sahni&ots=PkkgMydS6K&sig=rOVwHkVb4ObLF0i_qQ6UsCEh204)
• Sahni, U. (1999). Postcards from India. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 43(2), 134-141. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/40017060)
• Evans, D. R., Rossman, G., & Sahni, U. (1999). Plan for the Use of Findings for Decision-making and Refinement of Program. (https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cie_strengtheningeducation/2/)
• Evans, D. R., Rossman, G., & Sahni, U. (1999). Baseline Study-Part III. (https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=cie_strengtheningeducation)
• Evans, D. R., Rossman, G., & Sahni, U. (1999). Preliminary Program Effects on Girls' Enrollment and Classroom Learning Environments. (https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=cie_strengtheningeducation)
• Sahni, U. (1998). Teachers Becoming Action-Researchers: Developing a Teacher-Training Module for Increasing Girls' Participation in Primary Schools. (https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cie_strengtheningeducation/1/)
• Sahni, U. (1998). Developing a Teacher-Training Module for Increasing Girls' Participation in Primary Schools: Action Research Phase-A Report. (https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=cie_strengtheningeducation)
• Sahni, U. M. (1994). Building circles of mutuality: A sociocultural analysis of literacy in a rural classroom in India. University of California, Berkeley. (https://search.proquest.com/openview/b02c5063dda3e88e8e0c4f8d827d7f37/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y)

Blogs

• Gender equality and sustainability: Echidna Global Scholars taking action (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2022/03/07/gender-equality-and-sustainability-echidna-global-scholars-taking-action/)
• India’s National Education Policy 2020: A reformist step forward? (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2020/10/02/indias-national-education-policy-2020-a-reformist-step-forward/)
• COVID-19 in India: Education disrupted and lessons learned (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2020/05/14/covid-19-in-india-education-disrupted-and-lessons-learned/)
• Teaching boys to examine gender in patriarchal societies (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2019/04/10/teaching-boys-to-examine-gender-in-patriarchal-societies/)
• To empower girls in India, make gender education compulsory (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2018/12/19/to-empower-girls-in-india-make-gender-education-compulsory/)
• Reframing girls’ education in India (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2017/09/13/reframing-girls-education-in-india/)
• Improving Girls’ Education and Status in India with Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (Save Daughters, Educate Daughters) (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2014/08/25/improving-girls-education-and-status-in-india-with-beti-bachao-beti-padhao-save-daughters-educate-daughters/)
• #GirlsEdu: Equality and Education from the Ground Up in India (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2014/05/28/girlsedu-equality-and-education-from-the-ground-up-in-india/)
• International Women’s Day in India and Around the World: Progress and Strategies for Action (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2013/03/08/international-womens-day-in-india-and-around-the-world-progress-and-strategies-for-action/)
• Toward Consensus on a Goal for Education within the Post-2015 Development Agenda: A Tale of Two Regional Consultations (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2013/03/07/toward-consensus-on-a-goal-for-education-within-the-post-2015-development-agenda-a-tale-of-two-regional-consultations/)