A bioética e a formação de professores: estudo de caso no curso de ciências biológicas da Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Abstract

In the last decades with the advance of the scientific and technological development, Biology is becoming the base for the sprouting of these new processes. The dilemma that involve the subjects of Bioethics such as: abortion, euthanasia, genetics, trunk cells , research involving human beings and animal and public health, always leave of the biological knowledge. Being thus, this study it has as objective, to identify if the ethical aspects of the subjects that the Bioethics studies, they are argued in the course of graduation degree in Biology at UFAL. The methodology mention the research focus on of qualitative nature, being used the case study as methodological boarding. The data had been gotten through closed questionnaires applied to the professors and the students of the last year of the 2005 group, of the Biological course of Sciences at UFAL. The analysis of the data discloses, that a convergence for the most complex subjects of the ethical point of view and that exists exactly thus, the ethical aspect is not argued in classroom. In this way, the importance of the promotion of the debates of the subjects is verified that the Bioethics studies inside of the classroom, so that, this way it comes to contribute for the moral development and the ethical formation of the future professors of the course of Biological Sciences at UFAL.