"With the ubiquitous presence of video data and its increasing importance in a wide range of real-world applications, it is becoming increasingly necessary to automatically analyze and interpret object motions from large quantities of footage. Machine Learning for Human Motion Analysis: Theory and Practice highlights the development of robust and effective vision-based motion understanding systems. This advanced publication addresses a broad audience including practicing professionals working with specific vision applications such as surveillance, sport event analysis, healthcare, video conferencing..."

This book examines how teachers and students actually go about their classroom business. It carefully avoids the assumptions of policy-makers and theorists about what ought to be happening and focuses on what is happening. In doing so, Cooper and McIntyre offer a detailed look at how teachers are responding to the National Curriculum; a unique insight into secondary school students as learners and a grounded analysis of teaching and learning strategies drawing on the psychological theories of Bruner and Vygotsky.

ll teachers are now having to cope with rapid changes and the wide-reaching implications of educational reforms. The rise of ICT, the increased public accountability of schools, the increasing use of learning support staff, proposed changes to school calendars and to the school day, and evolving school-community relationships are all having a massive impact on the ways in which teachers and education managers work.This is the book that will help to put the reader at the front end of these changes. It will assist classroom teachers to adapt their working patterns to the new learning order.

The notion that school transformation is dependent on exceptional leaders is increasingly seen as unrealistic and unsustainable. Instead, the idea of distributed leadership, which promotes the view that all stakeholders have complementary leadership roles to play in enhancing student learning, is now being promoted as a more useful framework for understanding schools and how they might be changed.

"Cultivating Creativity in Babies, Toddlers and Young Children" shows how each of us can promote creativity in children. It explores the journey children take in developing their creativity, and helps child care students and practitioners to nurture creativity in babies, toddlers and young children. Written by a leading expert in an integrated approach to early childhood development and learning, "Cultivating Creativity" links theory and practice to provide a clear framework for this difficult, but vital, aspect of development and learning.