External Activities
External Lectures / Papers / Presentation

• "Evaluating Quality - An Analysis of Recent Developments in Whole-School Evaluation in the Irish Education System." McNamara, G. and O'Hara, J. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the European Evaluation Society, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2000.
• "Whole School Development through Evaluation" An Assessment of a National Pilot Project." McNamara, G., O'Hara J. and Ní Aingleis, B. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, April 2001.
• "How People Learn - What we think we know." Paper given at a conference on Problem-Based Learning in Science Education, Dublin, May 2001.
• "Irish Education at the Millenium: Changing Perceptions of Cultural and Religious Identity." McNamara, G. and O'Hara, J. Paper given at the inaugural conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies, University of Burgos, Spain, May 2001.
• "Evidence-Based School Evaluation: Who are the Stakeholders and what counts as Evidence." Paper given at the Third International Inter-Disciplinary Conference on Evidence-Based Policies and Indicator Systems, University of Durham, UK, July 2001.
• "An Analysis of the Training Needs of Staff working in Programmes for Early School Leavers in the Education System in Ireland." McNamara, G. and O'Hara, J. Paper given at the Biennial Conference of the International Studies Association on Teachers and Teaching, University of the Algarve, Portugal, September 2001.
• "Going Further, Adult Educators Reflect on the impact of further education on themselves and their communities." McNamara, G., Mulcahy, C. and Curry, J. Paper given at the Annual Conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults, University of Lisbon, Portugal, September 2001.

• "Developing Common Core Values in a multi- denominational school." Paper delivered to a meeting of Educate Together Schools, March 2001.
• Educate Together: "Educating Citizens Together in a multi-cultural Milieu." Paper presented to the International Conference on Racism and Zenophobia, Kloster Schon, Bavaria, June 2001.

• "Evaluating Quality - An Analysis of Recent Developments in Whole-School Evaluation in the Irish Education System." McNamara, G. and O'Hara, J. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the European Evaluation Society, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 2000.
• "Whole School Development through Evaluation: An Assessment of a National Pilot Project." McNamara, G., O'Hara, J. and Ní Aingleis, B. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, April 2001.
• "Irish Education at the Millennium: Changing Perceptions of Cultural and Religious Identity." McNamara, G. and O'Hara, J. Paper given at the inaugural conference of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies, University of Burgos, Spain, May 2001.
• "An Analysis of the Training Needs of Staff working in Programmes for Early School Leavers in the Education System in Ireland." McNamara, G. and O'Hara, J. Paper given at the Biennial Conference of the International Studies Association on Teachers and Teaching, University of the Algarve, Portugal, September 2001.