Citizens in Transition: Civic Engagement among Young People, 2011

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br><p>The&nbsp;<em>Citizens in Transition</em>&nbsp;(CiT) research project examined how young people in Britain are educated and prepared for their roles and responsibilities as adult citizens, and how their conceptualisation of citizenship may be changing over time. The study formed Wave 5 of a longitudinal study, the Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study (CELS), which follows a cohort of young people, who were tracked from age 11 onwards. (Wave 6 of CELS is held under SN 8748, <em>Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study: Wave 6 and Cross-Sectional Online Survey, 2014</em>, but Waves 1-4 are not currently held by UKDS.)</p>
<p>The CiT survey explored young people's participation in politics and voluntary activities as well as asking their opinions and attitudes towards a range of issues in society. A separate cross-national study compared groups of young people aged between 18 and 25 in England, Scotland and Wales, who have not been exposed to the compulsory citizenship curriculum.<br><br>Key questions addressed via this survey include: how political engagement and participation are changing among young people; whether they are giving up some traditional forms, such as voting, altogether while getting involved in new forms, such as internet-based participation; how young citizens are educated and prepared to undertake their rights and responsibilities as adult citizens and to this effect, what changes need to be made in the curriculum.<br><br>Further information may be found on the ESRC <a title="Citizens in Transition - Civic Engagement and Political Participation among Young People 2001-2011" href="http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-062-23-2427/read">Citizens in Transition - Civic Engagement and Political Participation among Young People 2001-2011</a> award page and the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) <a title="CELS-CiT Civic engagement among young people 2001-2011" href="http://www.nfer.ac.uk/research/projects/cels-cit/">CELS-CiT Civic engagement among young people 2001-2011</a> webpage. Further information on CELS can be found on the Centre for Research on Learning and Life Chances (LLAKES) <a title="Citizenship Education Longitudinal Survey" href="https://www.llakes.ac.uk/research-project/166/citizenship-education-longitudinal-survey-cels">Citizenship Education Longitudinal Survey</a> webpages.</p><br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>Topics covered include: citizenship education, volunteering, participation, voting, political attitudes, media exposure.

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《转型中的公民》（Citizens in Transition，简称CiT）研究项目旨在探究英国青少年如何接受教育、为成年公民的角色与责任做好准备，以及其公民身份认知如何随时间发生变化。本研究是纵向研究「公民教育纵向研究（Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study，简称CELS）」的第五波调查，该研究追踪了一批从11岁起便被持续跟踪的青少年群体。（CELS第六波调查以编号SN 8748收录，名称为《2014年公民教育纵向研究：第六波调查与横断面在线调查》，但CELS第一至第四波目前未由英国数据服务中心收录。）

CiT调查不仅探讨了青少年参与政治与志愿活动的情况，还收集了他们对一系列社会议题的观点与态度。另有一项跨国对比研究，对英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士境内未接受强制性公民课程的18至25岁青少年群体进行了比较分析。

本次调查旨在解答的核心问题包括：青少年的政治参与态势正如何演变；他们是否会放弃投票等部分传统参与形式，转而投身互联网参与等新型参与途径；年轻公民如何接受教育、为履行成年公民的权利与责任做好准备，以及为此公民课程需要做出哪些调整。

更多相关信息可查阅经济与社会研究委员会（ESRC）的《转型中的公民：2001-2011年青少年公民参与与政治参与》项目资助页面，以及国家教育研究基金会（National Foundation for Educational Research，简称NFER）的《CELS-CiT 2001-2011年青少年公民参与》网页。关于CELS的更多信息，可查阅学习与人生机遇研究中心（Centre for Research on Learning and Life Chances，简称LLAKES）的《公民教育纵向调查》相关网页。

**主要研究主题**：涵盖公民教育、志愿活动、政治参与、投票行为、政治态度、媒体接触等。