The researcher's concern has rather been to identify areas both of consensus and of debate in order to create a structure within which the ethics of this rapidly expanding diverse and increasingly professional practice might be theoretically and practically implemented. Recognizing that there are many points of entry into practice participation and commissioning the report juxtaposes frames of reference ranging between the political the civic and the ethical in order to offer a field of practices in which some agreement on ethical might comfortably emerge.
The research has been based upon an action research methodology. Its aim was not to teach impose or test a set of a priori ethical values but to enable a dialogue with collaborators on the issue of practice ethics in PT. In other words to discover what values were operative whether explicit or implicit to identify gaps and to attempt a provisional codification.
The aim was to produce a set of ethical guidelines for use in the HE curriculum in teaching. In Higher Education the guidelines will raise vocational awareness for students and in the world of employment support professionalism for practitioners.
