BIOETHICS EDUCATION NETWORK

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Coordinator: Darryl Macer, PhD.

Darryl Macer, PhD.
American University of Sovereign Nations
8840 East Chaparral Road, Suite 285
Scottsdale, AZ, United States 85250
Email: provost@ausn.info

Bioethics Education Network online. The website is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bioethicseducation

Goals.

• Promotion of bioethics education at all levels
• Promote public discussion of bioethics We welcome feedback. Some of the issues are controversial, but a balanced approach to these issues is needed, as education should prepare citizens for difficult moral dilemmas that they may face in their life. In recent times new approaches such as community engagement, use of museums exhibitions on bioethics, and other means to promote public discourse have been developed.

Projects. There are community, school and university trials of methods for bioethics education in many countries. Some of the institutions and individuals involved are also members of the UNESCO Asia-Pacific School of Ethics

Members of this network have produced and shared teaching materials for bioethics education in different countries, for school and university classes. There are various types of classes the materials have been used in. Materials can be downloaded in a growing number of languages from

Empirical research on the effectiveness of teaching bioethics at different ages and places is encouraged, and the results linked to policy. A regional bioethics education action plan was developed in Asia and the Pacific. This network is global.