General bioethics education as a contribution to the construction of a bioethical thinking on educators

ABSTRACT

This article presents the results of an investigation that examined a teacher education experience in general bioethics conducted by the University El Bosque. It covered 22.568 educators in different regions of the country. In addition to the value of the experience as a disciplinary divulgation exercise, this article intends to fi nd out the impact of bioethical teaching on Educators. The texts produced by them during their pedagogical experience were used as source of information. First, a general analytical reading of the texts was done. From the same, the analytical categories were built through which the assertions made by the educators regarding bioethics were useful to identify general elements that helped in making suggestions in two senses First, on bioethics teaching and second, bioethics of teaching; taking into account the contribution that these two make to the construction of a civil ethics. The gathering of allegations and suggestions collected from the texts, represent the educators’ voice and therefore can be understood as a version of their bioethical thinking in Colombia, especially of those who participated in the teacher training experience.