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Area of Science:

  • Bioethics Education
  • Moral Development
  • Societal Values

Background:

  • The "Education for Values and Bioethics" project targeted ninth-grade students in Porto, Portugal.
  • The initiative aimed to foster personal ethics and knowledge across diverse areas like human rights, health, and sustainable development.
  • A significant cohort (N-1164) participated between 2010 and 2013.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the impact of the "Education for Values and Bioethics" project on students' ethical understanding.
  • To promote knowledge acquisition in critical areas relevant to personal and societal well-being.
  • To evaluate the development of values aligned with pluralistic societies.

Main Methods:

  • Implementation of a research and action project focused on values and bioethics education.
  • Administration of a bioethics knowledge questionnaire to participating students.
  • Utilisation of Leonard Gordon's Survey of Personal Values and Survey of Interpersonal Values to assess value acquisition.

Main Results:

  • The project significantly increased students' knowledge in the domain of bioethics.
  • Participants demonstrated enhanced acquisition of fundamental values characteristic of pluralistic societies.
  • A positive correlation was observed between bioethics education and the development of personal and interpersonal values.

Conclusions:

  • The "Education for Values and Bioethics" project effectively enhances students' understanding of bioethics.
  • The program contributes to the development of essential values for navigating a diverse society.
  • This bioethics education is recommended for students pursuing careers in health sciences.