ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to identify and study ethical aspects of teacherthinking research in an attempt to enhance the research community’s awareness of this issue. It pertains both to the design and implementation stages of studies and relates to anticipated as well as unexpected events in the course of research. In order to focus our thinking and to identify distinct problems, we set out to create an inventory of ethical problems and dilemmas which arise in teacher-thinking research by studying the attitudes toward ethical issues of most of the professionally recognized members of the Israeli teacher-thinking research community (twelve researchers) through semi-open interviews. The findings are organized and pre-sented according to the major categories that emerged from the responses: 1) Awareness of ethical issues; 2) The nature of the partnership; and 3) The meaning of intervention. The fact that our study has put researchers into the traditional position of their subjects, may also cause them to view these questions from a different standpoint, an experience which in itself may be of value.
