Bioética: perspectivas generales en el marco educativo. Un estudio en Italia y España

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This work is divided in six chapters. The first chapter reveals the relevance of the object of study, the objectives of the research work and describes the methodology applied in each of the subsequent contributions. The second chapter analyses bioethics from its birth and consolidation as a science, some of the different definitions elaborated between the studies and its field of action. This is a necessarily synthetic analysis considering that the topic is very broad in itself and because of its implications and interactions with other fields of knowledge and due to the exponential growth, still ongoing, of its field of action. The third chapter deals with the central theme of this research related to the demand for maximum diffusion of a bioethical culture through its teaching not so much at the university level but at the school level and particularly in upper secondary school or compulsory secondary education. At this level of education, special attention is paid to its relationship with the Science-Technology-Society approach to science teaching. Thus, an analysis of the treatment of bioethics is also made in a sample of textbooks available in Avellino and in Granada, for different subjects, with special attention to the discipline of biology in the case of Granada. The fourth chapter collects and analyses the results of the empirical study carried out among teachers in Italy (city of Avellino) and Spain (city of Granada) on the status and perspectives of teaching bioethics in upper secondary schools or secondary education institutes. In the fifth chapter, after a brief premise on teaching and learning, the main problems that arise in the teaching of bioethics in schools are analysed, revealing the solution to some of these problems. Next, a development proposal is formulated to work on bioethics in upper secondary education, providing it in general and with specific reference to a teaching example considering the contributions previously presented in the work. Finally, sixth chapter, the conclusions of the work are collected and the limitations in which it has been developed are commented.