ABSTRACT
One of the challenges to professional development is the urgent need for appropriate research methods that will enable staff and pupils to record, review and evaluate their citizenship programmes. In recent years US colleagues have developed a research methodology that increasing numbers of practitioners in schools and universities regard as ideally suited to investigating questions thrown up by citizenship education and service learning. The method is called portraiture and it is included under the heading of professional development because it provides an invaluable tool for citizenship facilitators and teachers. What follows, however, is equally relevant to the sections on curriculum, creating learning experiences and inspection.
