생명윤리에 대한 초등교사와 학생들의 인식조사

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the levels on the perception of bioethics of elementary school teachers/6th grade students, and to emphasize the importance of bioethics education and provide the information on bioethics education in order to solve a trend of making the light of life that recently emerged as a social problem. For these objectives, a survey was conducted by 362 elementary school teachers and 287 students in Seoul and small- or medium-sized cities of Gyeonggi Province that were chosen for purpose sampling. The questionnaires consisted of the attention and perception of bioethics, variabilities according to sex, religion, age and service area for the teacher group, and sex, religion, age and school area for the student group. And, the teachers were also measured through 23 questions made up 13 items for learning topics to bioethics education, 5 items for role of the teacher for bioethics, 4 items for teaching method and teaching materials for bioethics education. Statically analysis was conducted on each of the variables through mean, t-test and F-distribution, Scheffe test through SPSS 12.0 program. The major results of this research were follows: First, the teachers became realized about the importance of bioethics education and had much interest in bioethics. And, the teachers showed significant differences in the perception of bioethics among themselves according to gender, age and service area, except for the religion. Second, the students also discovered the importance of bioethics education and had much interest in bioethics. And, the teachers showed significant differences in the perception of bioethics among elementary school students according to sex, area and religion. Third, because the elementary school teachers had a high level of perception on the lack of materials and programs that could be applied to lesson, it is needed to solve these problems to activate the bioethics education in elementary school field. Also, many of them mentioned audio lessons, video lessons and discussion lessons as the proper type of lesson for bioethics education, and raised a need to develop an in-service training program to provide teachers with accurate information about bioethics. In conclusions, the strengthening of bioethics education through curriculum of primary teacher education institute and in-service teachers training course ​ is necessary to meet the knowledge and values ​ of bioethics for teachers because the class teacher instructs almost all subjects in elementary school. And to increase the ethical perception of elementary school students, many programs containing learning contents should be associated with the present time situation and need to be developed to induce the interest of the student.