This handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to critical applied linguistics and language education, exploring how power, inequality, and social change shape linguistic issues, educational practices, and research agendas. Bringing together leading scholars and emerging voices from around the world, it equips researchers, educators, students, and policymakers with critical frameworks and perspectives for building more equitable and socially responsible approaches to language and language education. The volume is organized into two parts. The first, Critical Projects in Applied Linguistics and Language Education, highlights established domains operating under explicit critical labels, demonstrating how criticality shapes research, pedagogy, and policy. The second, Critical Perspectives in Applied Linguistics and Language Education, examines contemporary social, political, environmental, and educational issues through a critical lens. Together, the handbook positions criticality as a reorienting force in applied linguistics and language education that confronts inequality, deepens inquiry, and sustains hope for transforming an uneven world.

This book brings an eclectic mix of contributors from around the world together to share important insights about policy advice and policy making in education- to give readers a better sense of what policy creation can entail, and who might be and how they might be involved. Coming from a range of jurisdictions, the chapters in this book have been authored by people with important insights to share from their experiences of doing and researching policy advice and policy making in education: civil servants, consultants, knowledge mobilizers, school staff, and university-based researchers and teacher educators.

While many chapters focus on policy advice and policy making at national and subnational levels, others challenge the common (mis)perception that policy making is confined to governments. Thus, there are chapters that illustrate that education policy is produced in education institutions such as schools too. Moreover, other chapters highlight how intermediary bodies and higher education academics are shaping education policy at various levels.

Taken together the chapters in Advising on and Making Education Policy: New Perspectives on Past and Present Procedures reveal some of the inner workings of government departments, exemplify educators, students and parents as policy makers, and highlight how there are a wide range of additional groups and individuals having influence and impact in the policy ecosystem.

Between 1880 and 1910, as Jim Crow's legal apparatus transformed Louisiana's complex racial landscape into a stark binary, Creole women fought to preserve their community's distinctive identity through the most ordinary acts of daily life. In their households, they cultivated kinship arrangements that prioritized mutual care over conventional family structures. In workshops and factories, they navigated the degradation of traditional occupations while strategically avoiding associations with Black women's labor. In churches, they deployed Catholic sacraments to formalize social bonds and secure legal protections. In courtrooms, they exploited Louisiana's racial ambiguities to defend their families and assert their claims to elevated status. Through these seemingly mundane spheres of daily existence, Creole women resisted the racial order that sought to collapse all people of African descent into a single category of Blackness.

Making Creole: Women and the Creole Community in Early Jim Crow New Orleans examines how Creole women took action against the systematic erosion of their privileges. As Louisiana moved from recognizing the legal status of free people of color to enforcing rigid Jim Crow segregation, Creole women became the primary architects of sociocultural preservation. Before the Civil War, Louisiana law had distinguished all free persons of African descent as legally separate from both enslaved persons and white people, granting them specific rights and privileges based on their "free" status rather than their complexion alone. The end of slavery eliminated this legal distinction. By the early twentieth century, Jim Crow legislation systematically forced all people of African descent into a single racialized category of Blackness, erasing the complex racial hierarchies that had previously structured Louisiana society. In this context, Creole women's labor in managing complex kinship networks, preserving Franco-Catholic traditions, policing community boundaries, and strategically navigating legal institutions constituted essential political work that sustained not just families but an entire ethnic community under siege.

Using an innovative "speculative demography" methodology, Natasha L. McPherson analyzes more than nine thousand transcribed records from census data, court documents, and Catholic church registers, including materials from the Sisters of the Holy Family, to reconstruct patterns of Creole women's resistance between 1880 and 1910. Making Creole moves beyond traditional narratives of political organizing to illuminate how women's everyday practices became mechanisms of ethnic identity formation and cultural survival, revealing resistance from the intimate spaces where it actually occurred.

The operator-tested framework for leading AI transformation as a talent strategy

Most enterprise AI initiatives fail because organizations treat them as technology rollouts rather than talent management challenges. In Workforce Intelligence: The People-First Playbook for Leading Your Company Through AI Transformation, OneDigital co-founder Mike Sullivan and Chief Product Officer Vinay Gidwaney introduce an operating model that treats the workforce as a composed capacity of human judgment and machine capability, orchestrated together.

Built from the authors' experience scaling OneDigital to a $1.7 billion enterprise serving 100,000 employers, Workforce Intelligence traces the evolution from Personnel Management to Human Capital Management to the new discipline of WI. The book delivers real client situations, internal operating metrics, and a tested management philosophy forged under private-equity scrutiny.

Ultimately, you'll learn how to pass the "Humanity Test": When confronted with the option of reinvesting returns from AI in the people who built your business or pocketing the excess margins, you'll know the best option is the first one - and exactly how to execute it. You'll also find:

• A historical arc showing why each workforce management transition required a new philosophy, not just new tools
• Named scenes and real client situations illustrating how the Workforce Intelligence framework operates in practice
• Guidance for CHROs on positioning people leadership, not technology teams, as the owner of AI transformation
• A measurement framework designed to withstand board-level scrutiny when justifying AI-driven workforce investments
• Practical direction for people managers who need to act on AI-related workforce changes starting Monday morning

Written for HR leaders, CHROs, benefits executives, CEOs, and people managers at mid-to-large employers, Workforce Intelligence provides the operational framework and management philosophy needed to lead AI transformation as a people strategy rather than a technology deployment.

This fun, comic-style guide reveals the secrets to smart, safe, and effective AI use in school, college, and university. Transform your study habits, rediscover the joy of learning, and recharge your creativity...all while keeping your academic integrity intact.

You'll learn to:
- Collaborate with AI chatbots: gain practical 'prompt-engineering' secrets to work smarter with ChatGPT, Copilot, and similar tools.
- Boost performance: do better work without cheating or outsourcing your brain.
- Build healthy habits: blend AI with study, reading, writing, planning, and brainstorming, while increasing your autonomy and critical thinking skills.
- Stay ahead of the curve: get involved, get confident, and get creative while the tech is still fresh.

Perfect for students who want to excel in their studies while enjoying the process, this guide is a must-have for anyone looking to stay competitive and stay sane in today's tech-driven academic world. It's a perfect addition to any educator's library and an ideal gift for back-to-school season.

Explores how Japan navigated its alliance with the United States in the aftermath of 9/11, balancing its pacifist constitution with evolving global security demands through newly revealed diplomatic documents and high-level policy analysis.

After Terrorism offers a groundbreaking analysis of how Japan navigated its alliance with the United States in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Drawing from newly declassified diplomatic documents, Ryuji Hattori challenges conventional narratives and introduces the concept of the global alliance security dilemma, illustrating how Japan struggled to balance its pacifist constitution with growing international security demands. Providing a rare, document-based perspective on the Bush-Koizumi era, Hattori offers insights into high-level negotiations, security policymaking, and the shifting geopolitical landscape of East Asia. Through a meticulous analysis of primary sources and interviews with key policymakers, he reveals how Japan's foreign policy was shaped by both alliance asymmetries and domestic constraints. Ideal for scholars of international relations, security studies, and Asian diplomacy, After Terrorism is an essential resource for understanding the long-term impact of post-9/11 security decisions on US-Japan relations and the broader Indo-Pacific order.

The open access version of this book has been made available thanks to the generosity of Ryuji Hattori.

This book offers insights into developing internal quality control, especially for educational settings which have yet to establish quality system infrastructures to match leading European models. It focuses on the interest in post-control economies which have a global reach, and provides a basis for discussion of the challenges faced by institutions and governments in emerging neo-liberal economies. This book also questions the relationship of quality and neo-liberal aspiration for education and the intrinsic issues this creates. It builds on the experience of the Azerbaijani higher education institutions and regulators and offers options in an empathetic way in which emerging post-Soviet countries can establish units of internal quality assurance. It equips professionals with concise, actionable insights, enabling them to implement a robust Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) system tailored to their institution's specific needs and objectives.

Environmental social scientist Urooj Raja explores how to promote environmental action through the repurposing of six hegemonic forces - anthropocentrism, extractivism, capitalism, legal hegemony, technofixes, and imaginative hegemony - drawing upon and offering practical insights rooted in both everyday actions and contemporary resistance studies.

This book delves into the concept of adaptive resilience, through which climate and environmental actors (CEAs) resist or repurpose these hegemonic forces by leveraging a combination of firsthand experiences, knowledge, networks, and skills. Raja argues that CEAs lean on adaptive resilience to resist and sometimes repurpose hegemonic forces and tools, which, when left unchallenged, often impede attempts to combat environmental inaction and climate change by design.

The author addresses the complexity and contradictions of how CEAs have engaged in contemporary climate action in the face of oppression, cautioning against a reliance on "purity solutions." This book's analysis traverses the environmental action ecosystems, engaging in discussions on traditional modes of activism, such as environmental campaigns, but also touches on novel ways of doing and thinking about environmental activism and action, including how CEAs harness and leverage technology and their imagination to do more for the climate. In doing so, this book offers an updated mapping of some of the less-discussed components of 21st-century environmental and climate activism and how CEAs, despite the odds, deliver and act when it comes to environmental action.

In Fearless Philanthropy, Roberta Brandes Gratz tells the story of Edith Rosenwald Stern-rich, progressive, and Jewish-who arrived in New Orleans in 1921, the wife of successful cotton broker Edgar Bloom Stern. Edith encountered a city rife with racism and antisemitism, and run by a set of entrenched social rules that she was not about to abide by. Her father, Julius Rosenwald of Sears & Roebuck, one of the richest men in America, had begun transforming lives of Black Americans in the South through his efforts to promote Black education. Edith proceeded to follow in his footsteps, and with her willing partner Edgar helped revolutionize aspects of New Orleans still visible today.

In telling the story of the Sterns, Gratz spotlights the outsider category of Jews in New Orleans, the specific impacts of the Mardi Gras social structure upon them, and the Sterns' influence on education in the South. Edith founded two pioneering educational institutions, while Edgar led a biracial group in the founding of Dillard University and Flint-Goodridge Hospital to serve the Black community. In 1947, Edgar purchased New Orleans radio station WDSU for son Edgar Jr. to run, and a year later Edgar Jr. opened WDSU-TV, the sixth major television station in the South. WDSU editorials favoring school integration, together with Edith's financial support of the desegregation campaign of the local women's group Save Our Schools, had a great impact during a volatile time. Edgar's rebuilding of the St. Louis Hotel (now the Royal Orleans), begun in the late 1940s and continued throughout the next decade, helped initiate the revitalization of the deteriorating French Quarter. As if that weren't enough, the Sterns led the development of Pontchartrain Park, the first Black middle-class housing development in the United States backed by the FHA.

Gratz's passionate account of Edith and Edgar Stern, showing how they grappled with issues of Black rights, philanthropy, civil rights, education, historic preservation, and the arts in a political and social climate antagonistic to change, provides a fascinating chronicle of New Orleans during a period of pivotal development.

The book focuses on intersections of leadership, psychological safety, and technology and their impact on well-being in organizations. As we examine the emerging concept of workplace well-being, it becomes evident that leadership is about creating an environment where individuals can flourish in all aspects, not just boosting output. This book is a call to action for leaders to be more proactive and compassionate in fostering their teams' well-being, in a time when mental health is as important as physical health. Leaders can shape their teams' overall psychological safety, set the tone for work-life balance, and mold the company's culture. In today's world, it is imperative for leaders to understand how recent technological advancements are affecting employees' well-being. This book is intended for a wide audience, including business professionals such as managers, HR specialists, and organizational leaders, looking to deepen their understanding of human factors to enhance workplace dynamics and employee performance.

This book can serve as a basis for academicians and researchers to further explore the relationship among leadership, psychological safety, and technology in relation to well-being. The book will provide comprehensive, contemporary insights into human factors in business, organizational psychology, human resources, and related disciplines. Counseling psychologist and Human resource consultant engaged in organizational development, human resources, and corporate training, offering expertise to improve workplace effectiveness. Policymakers and think tanks are responsible for shaping workplace regulations, labor laws, and organizational ethics to ensure sustainable and ethical business practices. The book is also relevant to multiple disciplines, such as organizational behavior, workplace health, sociology, psychology, public health, social work, and leadership studies. The book explores the role of psychological safety in creating safe workplaces, Leadership and its impact on employees' well-being, the role of leadership during crisis and change, and strategies to foster psychological resilience, such as cognitive flexibility, and the role of leaders in balancing technology with human-centric approaches.

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This pioneering book delivers a foremost in-depth study of the protest against the Nigerian Police's Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) from the perspective of memory studies. Blending scholarly insight with personal experience, the author, both a researcher and a front-line participant in the protest, offers a rare, insider-informed perspective. The book interrogates how protesters constructed diverse memory practices and mobilized digital platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp to organize, document, and sustain resistance. Moving beyond the immediate trigger of the protest, the book uncovers dire conditions that ignited the protest: youth unemployment, poverty, entrenched public-sector corruption, and perennial police brutality. These interlocking challenges form what the author terms an implicit collective memory, the shared socio-economic trauma that formed the underlying catalyst of the EndSARS movement. Interdisciplinary, urgent, and deeply grounded in the lived realities of the Global Majority, this book offers an essential contribution to the study of activism, digital resistance, and collective memory.

Offers a window into the everyday lives of ordinary Africans during the era of Africa's precolonial history.

What did Africans eat in the Kingdom of Kongo? How did tradesmen make a living along Saharan trade routes? What role did cosmologies play in various African groups' religions before the colonial invasion? These questions are answered as well as other insights given in this new addition to the Daily Life through History series.

This book examines the period of African history prior to its colonization, exploring what day-to-day life may have looked like for various groups of people across the continent of Africa throughout this time. Topics such as religious life, domestic life, and recreational life are discussed, exemplifying Africa's rich history and its diverse and vibrant cultures and heritage. Study is aided by the inclusion of a succinct timeline, as well as a glossary.