Establishment of High School Bioethics Education Network

Abstract

"Bioethics education is essential to satisfy the goals in bioethics, for example, making decisions about the use of science and technology more democratic. The International Bioethics Education Survey conducted in 1993 found 80% of biology and social studies teachers who responded from in Japanese high schools thought bioethics education is needed (1, 2). However many teachers said that they needed more resources or materials to teach, so in 1994 we developed teaching materials for bioethics (16 A4 pages), and distributed them to 500 teachers who had requested a summary of the survey. English originals were also sent to Australian and New Zealand school teachers, and are available on Internet ."