BIOETHICS, a 1st year high school project

Combining “biological knowledge” and “human values”. This is what the Bioethics, a branch of Ethics relatively new (Van Rensselaer Potter, 1970) which is responsible for “the systematic study of human behavior in the area of life sciences and health care, when such behavior is examined in the light of moral values and principles”. 

With this premise, the 1st year of Baccalaureate students have launched a project whose main objectives are to promote critical thinking, learn to debate by expressing one's own ideas with argumentative rigor and respect for the ideas of others, and conduct good research for information and oral presentation of knowledge, ideas and opinions.

This is a truly great project. multidisciplinary in which a good part of the subjects of 1st year of Baccalaureate (Social Action, Languages, English, Economics, Technology, Biology, Chemistry, CMC, Audiovisual Culture, Psychology and Philosophy) intervene. Each subject intervenes from its contents, enriching the project with well-chosen contributions. 

The SSCC Student Profile is at all times the reference for the project, since the theme and richness of the project allows it to be worked on in a very competent, providing tools to understand the current world, but also to see how the clinical decision makingAll this from a very necessary reflective perspective if we want to know, for example, what the world could be like after the COVIDThat is why it has been used as an acronym that accompanies the project title: “BIOETHICS. Cto collaborate, Orobserve, Vto ascend, Idear, D"to rent".

In addition to knowing the different areas of Bioethics (its principles, which anthropological model it follows, what methodology, how a Healthcare Ethics Committee…) 1st year high school students will have to generate a “final product” capable of expressing what they have learned from the different subjects based on their own research i reflection.

A good opportunity to learn and understand the world we live in, combining critical thinking, research, argumentative skills, dialogue and reflection on the human dignity.

We believe that Bioethics is here to stay!