Bioethics Goes To Schools: Modules

Design for High School Students in Indonesia

Sherly Kurnia DewiElizabeth Citra Wening PrasantiMichelle Anastasia

Atma Jaya Indonesia Catholic University

What is Bioethics?

Bioethics is an ethical knowledge that used to analyze problems

related with living being.

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Aspects of Bioethics

NEED BIOETHICSDecisions making

Cited From Unesco (2007)

Ethical Issues

Moral ConflictWhat

contradictive values cause the conflict?

Facts that must be analyzed

Bioethics is ComplexInclude knowledge related with

anthropology, sociology, biology, medicine, religion, psychology, and philosophy (Macer 2006)

Include awareness on the important of lives, environment, and people other than yourself

The most important is the awareness to God.

Require not only “Sense” but also “Sensibility” to analyze (Devos 2008)

The Implications of Bioethics Complexity

We need experiences and practices To understand bioethics

Understanding bioethics from early age will give us better chances to practice and experience bioethics issues

The Problem is… Who is the appropriate subject

learner to study bioethics in early age?

How to make material studies easy to understand by youngster

How to teach that materials?

Why Must Senior High SCHOOL STUDENTS?

The senior high school students are mature enough in formal thinking (Piaget developmental theory)

In Indonesia, bioethics is taught as separate subject only in several universities. In high schools, bioethics is part of the teaching of biology.

Make bioethics easy to understand

Selecting materials Choosing method to teach the

selected materials

The Chosen Materials is … basic bioethics environmental & biodiversity

bioethics experiment of baby designed euthanasia

Methods to transfer every materialsbasic bioethics is taught through

explanation and discussionenvironmental and biodiversity

bioethics is taught by using a gamebaby design experiment is taught

by using case study of Nash Family and My Sister’s Keeper (a fiction written by Jodie Picoult)

Euthanasia is taught by using a drama

How Use This Games To Teach Bioethics?

An article

Start to play

Character & color

View Games ChosePerson who is

getting involved in that article

Identifying

Read & Analyze

class divided into 4 groups

How Use This Games To Teach Bioethics?

The game’s rules

I’m environmentalistI’m scientist

• This game is started by deciding the order of the players using dice.

• Each group will play by turns based on the number on the dice from the first square.

• We need a moderator to moderate the statements.

I moderate your statementsRoll the dice!!

• Landing on white square or same color square means no argument to be given

7

• Landing on different color square means you have to deliver opinion in a view

5In the scientist view,

GMO is fine because bla bla bla

…That sounds logical.

• Meeting black arrow (ladder) means to move upstairs

8Ninja!

• Later on…

1

My turn!

How’s that possible? O_O

• Meeting a yellow arrow (snake) means to move downstairs

=(

>_<

• If player fail to give opinion, they have to move one square back.

So your opinion is…?

I have no idea

• Really later on…

6

Give me 5 and I’ll win!

• Should the dice exceed the number required to reach 100th box, you have to go back.

• The winner is the fastest player to reach the 100th box

7

=D T_T Hooray!!So close…

Benefit of This Games• Making bioethics as an enjoyable

teaching material• Teaching students that moral

conflict usually happened because of the two different paradigms.

AcknowledgementWe give thanks to Jesus Christ our source of knowledge

and idea. The research financially supported by Atma Jaya Jakarta

University and Indonesia Bioethics Commision. Thanks to Amru Hydari Nazif, Agustin W Gunawan, Maggy

T Wijaya, Michael Dua, and Sintak T Gunawan as advisor.

Our family, POMA community (our family in Christ), and Diao Ai Lien for the word that give motivation.

All people that involved.

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