PUBLICATIONS

• Sahni, U. (In Press). Educating students to think, feel and behave democratically: Study Hall Educational Foundation (SHEF): A magical space of possibility. In Designing Schools and Democratic Learning Environments : A Global Perspective. Springer Nature.
  
  
• Sahni, U. (2023). Trembling: The winds and I. Nordic Journal of Art & Research, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.7577/ar.5641
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Gallagher, K., & Sahni, U. (2019). Performing care: re-imagining gender, personhood, and educational justice. Gender and Education, 31(5), 631-642.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Sahni, U. (2017). Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls Through Education: Empowering Girls Through Education. Brookings Institution Press.
  
  
• Sahni, U. (2016). Classrooms as radical spaces of possibilities. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 21(1), 134-136.
  
  
• Miller, P. J., & Sahni, U. (2016). Resources for composing. In Child Cultures, Schooling, and Literacy (pp. 151-166). Routledge.
  
  
• Sahni, U. (2015). Primary education in India: Progress and challenges. The second Modi-Obama summit: Building the India-US partnership, 35-38.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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).
  
  
• 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).
  
  
• Hull, G. A., Stornaiuolo, A., & Sahni, U. (2010). Cultural citizenship and cosmopolitan practice: Global youth communicate online. English Education, 42(4), 331-367.
  
  
• 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).
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Sahni, U. (2007). KEYNOTE: Drama in Education: Finding self, finding “home”. Caribbean Quarterly, 53(1-2), 37-48.
  
  
• 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).
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Sahni, U. (2001). Children appropriating literacy: Empowerment pedagogy from young children’s perspective. Negotiating critical literacies in classrooms, 19-35.
  
  
• Sahni, U. (1999). Postcards from India. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 43(2), 134-141.
  
  
• Evans, D. R., Rossman, G., & Sahni, U. (1999). Plan for the Use of Findings for Decision-making and Refinement of Program.
  
  
• Evans, D. R., Rossman, G., & Sahni, U. (1999). Baseline Study-Part III.
  
  
• Evans, D. R., Rossman, G., & Sahni, U. (1999). Preliminary Program Effects on Girls' Enrollment and Classroom Learning Environments.
  
  
• Sahni, U. (1998). Teachers Becoming Action-Researchers: Developing a Teacher-Training Module for Increasing Girls' Participation in Primary Schools.
  
  
• Sahni, U. (1998). Developing a Teacher-Training Module for Increasing Girls' Participation in Primary Schools: Action Research Phase-A Report.
  
  
• Sahni, U. M. (1994). Building circles of mutuality: A sociocultural analysis of literacy in a rural classroom in India. University of California, Berkeley.