ABSTRACT
The Citizenship Education Policy Study (CEPS) represents an unprecedented attempt to design and implement a cross-cultural variation of the Delphi technique. It engaged a distinctively large team of researchers with diverse national, cultural, linguistic, conceptual, and professional resources in a collaborative effort to solicit, integrate and interpret the collective wisdom generated by a prestigious, multinational panel of experts. The expert opinion was then used to develop educational policy relevant both within the participating nations and beyond any particular policy system. In attempting this, the present study joins the tradition of its methodological predecessors in grappling with the risk, rigour and creativity required to address questions of significance to present and future social and educational systems.
