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WITH THESE WORDS AMILCAR CABRAL AFFIRMED THE NECESSITY FOR BLACK PEOPLE FIGHTING AGAINST CAPITALISM AND RACISM TO SEE THE CONNECTING LINKS BETWEEN THEIR STRUGGLES WHEREVER THEY MIGHT BE IN THE WORLD. AS ONE OF THE WORLD'S OUTSTANDING POLITICAL THEORETICIANS ON THE NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE AND AS A REVOLUTIONARY PRACTITIONER, CABRAL CONSIDERED INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY NOT ONLY TO BE THE PROVISION OF CONCRETE MATERIAL AND POLITICAL AID TO THE ARMED STRUGGLE BUT TO INCLUDE THE STRUGGLE AGAINST INJUSTICE IN ONE'S OWN COUNTRY. DURING THE 1970S HE WAS ONE OF THE FIRST LEADERS OF THE NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE TO TALK WITH AFRICANAMERICANS ABOUT THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE IN GUINEABISSAU AND CAPE VERDE. WHENEVER HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES, HE ASKED TO SPEAK INFORMALLY WITH MEMBERS FROM THE ACTIVIST COMMUNITY ABOUT THE STRUGGLE AGAINSDT PORTUGUESE COLONIALISM. ONE OF HIS MOST IMPORTANT THEORETICAL WORKS ANALYZING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NATIONAL LIBERATION STRUGGLE AND THE QUEST FOR IDENTITY AND DIGNITY WAS DELIVERED ON THE OCCASION OF HIS RECEIVING AN HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREE FROM LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, A PREDOMINATELY BLACK SCHOOL.

"Assessment of Online Learners offers essential foundations, insights, and real-world examples for pre-service teachers preparing to assess students in today's digitized classrooms. When aligned with intended curricula and best practices, assessment not only informs but enhances both instruction and student achievement, though the recent large-scale adaptation of face-to-face learning to online platforms has yielded new challenges and responsibilities for teachers. This book explores shifts in the research and practice of assessment in online environments, the reconceptualization of course content and assessment frameworks in teacher education, the collection of fair and accurate assessment evidence reflecting students' virtual learning, and more. Drawing from experienced Canadian instructors who overcame the inherent technological obstacles, these chapters showcase how unprecedented changes in schooling can lead to pedagogical renewal, program reevaluation, and a broader understanding of instruction and assessment practices"--

A substantial body of research describes the distribution, causes and potential reduction of health inequalities, yet little scholarship examines public understandings of these inequalities. Existing work is dominated by small-scale, qualitative studies of the experiences of specific communities. As a result, we know very little about what broader publics think about health inequalities; and even less about public views of potential policy responses. This is an important gap since previous research shows many researchers and policymakers believe proposals for 'upstream' policies are unlikely to attract sufficient public support to be viable. This mixed methods study combined a nationally representative survey with three two-day citizens' juries exploring public views of health inequalities and potential policy responses in three UK cities (Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool) in July 2016. Comparing public opinion elicited via a survey to public reasoning generated through deliberative processes offers insight into the formation of public views. The results challenge perceptions that there is a lack of public support for upstream, macro-level policy proposals and instead demonstrate support for proposals aiming to tackle health inequalities via improvements to living and working conditions, with more limited support for proposals targeting individual behavioural change. At the same time, some macro-economic proposals, notably those involving tax increases, proved controversial among study participants and results varied markedly by data source. Our analysis suggests that this results from three intersecting factors: a resistance to ideas viewed as disempowering (which include, fundamentally, the idea that health inequalities exist); the prevalence of individualising and fatalistic discourses, which inform resistance to diverse policy proposals (but especially those that are more 'upstream', macro-level proposals); and a lack of trust in (local and national) government. This suggests that efforts to enhance public ...