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Sherly Kurnia Dewi, Elizabeth Citra Wening Prasanti,

Michele Anastasia*

NTRODUCTION

Bioethics generally can be defined as ethic

iscipline which is used to discuss problems in

biology science. Nowadays, it has been necessary to

nalysis ethical issues and moral conflicts by usingbioethics to make right decision (Unesco 2007). Why

an bioethics be used to answer those ethical issues

nd moral conflicts with the right decision? It's

because, bioethics have a complete packet including

Sense and Sensibility to analyzing those ethical

ssues and moral conflicts (Devos 2008). Sense is all

ogical knowledge but Sensibility is all awareness

ncluding awareness of God. All part of Sense and

Sensibility had shown the complexity of bioethics.

The complexity implicated to difficulty rate to taught

bioethics in early age, although its important to give

xperiences and practices from early age.

The purpose of this paper is to make bioethics easy

nd enjoyable to learn. To reach the purpose its

mportant to select all source of bioethics material

nd chose the appropriate material studies. All

material studies need methods to teach them.

Methods

We chose senior high school students to be subject

learner of these modules because we believe that

they are mature enough in formal operational based

on Piaget developmental theory (Lin 2002). Besidethat, In Indonesia bioethics hasnt been taught as

separated subject in senior high school and its not al

school give bioethics as a part of biology subject.

To make bioethics easy and enjoyable to learn, we

did the process to selecting material studies and

methods to teach all of these materials. The methods

of all material studies that selected are integrated in

a module.

Result & Discussion

The first step that we should take to arrange this

module is selecting materials. Finally the chosen

materials are basic bioethics, environmental and

biodiversity bioethics, baby design experiment issue

and euthanasia. The next step is choosing method to

teach every material studies. So we taught Basic

Bioethics by using explanation directly since it is the

All authors are students in Atma Jaya Indonesia Catholic University, Jalan Jenderal Sudirman 51 Jakarta 12930 Indonesia,

Email: sherly.kurnia@mhs.atmajaya.ac.id.

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oundation for the other materials. Environmental

nd biodiversity bioethics is taught use role play game

Snake and Ladder. Baby design experiment issues

re taught by making comparison of two case studies.

ne case is a true story and another is fiction.

uthanasia as common issues is taught with dramas.

In this poster we only will be presented how to use

Snake and Ladder Game to teach bioethics. Theagram bellow is shown the steps before play game

Figure 1). We can see the board of game and the rule

f game in Figure 2 and 3. The benefits of the game

re making bioethics as an enjoyable teaching

material and showing students that moral conflicts

sually happen when two different paradigms met

igure 1 Steps before start Snake and Ladder game.

Figure 2 The games board

Figure 3 The Rules of game

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

We hope this module appropriate to the senior high

school students. The credibility of this module can b

proofed after it is given to the students. If they can

understand, it means that this module can be used to

teach them. The first application of this module i

conducted on November or December 2008. Surel

the test has to be done several times.

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Lin S. 2002. Piaget's developmental stages. In B

Hoffman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Educationa

Technology. Retrieved October 30, 2008, from

http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Articles/piaget/start.htm

[UNESCO]. 2007. Ehics Education Programme

Bioethics core curriculum proposal.