Development of Reasoning in Bioethical Issues in Pre-service Science Teachers
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This study aims to develop reasoning on bioethics issues among pre-service science teachers through a workshop on teaching bioethics. The participants include 24 pre-service science teachers. The research instrument includes Ethical Reasoning for Making an Informed Decision Test that consists of 4 bioethics issues: BT cotton, genetic screening, golden rice, and stem cell research. Data analysis employed an analytical framework proposed by Sadler and Zeidler. The results show that after the training, 93.5% of the participants increased their ethical reasoning; emotional reasoning decreased, but intuition reasoning increased by 3.1%, especially on the issues of stem cell research ethical reasoning. Emotional reasoning decreased, but intuition reasoning increased by 3.1%, especially on stem cell research issues, which is sensitive and makes it hard to make informed decisions. Factors that affect bioethical reasoning are the sensitivity of the bioethics issues: the participants tend to use emotion or intuition rather than bioethical principles. Second, establishing a safe learning environment would promote the freedom of expression and openness to different perspectives.
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