Purpose: This article explores the policy context in the UK around securing impact from academic research, particularly from the perspective of a social science education researcher. Approach: The article locates impact studies within debates about broader accountability frameworks. Insights from this literature are applied to a case study about…

This article addresses issues of methodology and ethical reflexivity when attempting to investigate the opinions of young people. Drawing specifically on three studies of young people's understandings of citizenship and their views on topical issues, two from England and one from Lebanon, the authors present ways in which the ethical and practical…

In the first part of this paper the author outlines some of the main characteristics of citizenship education in England and in particular he discusses the nature of the active citizenship dimension to the curriculum and the importance of teacher preparation. In the second part he reports on the first three years of a project with history and…