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Jahr : Europski časopis za bioetiku, Vol. 17 No. 1, 2026.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21860/j.17.1.1

Developing a bioethics education program (BEEP) for teacher education

Semra Tican Başaran orcid id orcid.org/0000-0003-2734-7779 ; Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, Türkiye. *
Hatice Hanım Erol ; Department of Educational Sciences, Graduate School of Educational Sciences, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, Türkiye.
Eda Yeşil Arslan ; Department of Educational Sciences, Graduate School of Educational Sciences, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, Türkiye.
Müesser Özcan ; Department of Medical History and Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, Türkiye.
Oğuz Özdemir ; Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Faculty of Education, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, Türkiye.
Eralp Doğu ; Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, Türkiye.
Özkan Çelik ; Department of Elementary Education, Faculty of Education, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, Türkiye.

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Abstract

Rapid scientific and technological developments increasingly generate bioethical dilemmas affecting decisions about human life, other living beings, and the environment. Addressing such dilemmas requires systematic bioethics education, and teacher education provides an important pathway for fostering ethical awareness in future generations. This study aims to identify prospective teachers’ needs regarding the development of a BEEP. Using a basic qualitative design, data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 35 prospective teachers from a Faculty of Education in western Türkiye and analyzed through content analysis. The findings indicate that participants generally have limited prior knowledge of bioethics and lack formal education on the subject. Nevertheless, they emphasized the importance of bioethics education for professional development and for fostering an ethically aware society.The identified needs were organized around four components: learning outcomes, content, teaching-learning processes, and evaluation. Participants highlighted competencies related to understanding bioethical concepts, critical thinking, empathy, and ethical decision-making, and emphasized interdisciplinary content, experiential and dialogic pedagogies, and reflective assessment practices. These findings provide an empirically grounded basis for developing BEEP in teacher education.

Keywords

bioethics; bioethics education; prospective teachers; curriculum development; BEEP

Hrčak ID:

348925

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/348925

Publication date:

26.6.2026.

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