Biology Teachers' Awareness of Controversial Bio-Ethical Issues at Secondary Schools of Zarqa Governorate
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https://doi.org/10.59759/educational.v5i2.1505Keywords:
Awareness, Controversial Bio-Ethical Issues, Biology Teachers.Abstract
The current study aimed to identify the level of awareness of secondary school biology teachers of controversial bioethical issues in Zarqa Governorate schools (and awareness is operationally defined in this study as: knowledge, attitudes and practices of biology teachers of controversial bioethical issues). The study followed the descriptive survey approach, and the study sample consisted of (70) male and female teachers. To achieve the study objectives, a questionnaire was prepared to collect data consisting of (36) paragraphs distributed over three axes: biology teachers' knowledge of controversial bioethical issues, biology teachers' attitudes towards controversial bioethical issues, and teaching practices used by secondary school biology teachers to teach controversial bioethical issues. The study reached a set of results; The most prominent of these was that the level of awareness of secondary school biology teachers of controversial bioethical issues in Zarqa Governorate schools was high. It was also found that there were no statistically significant differences in the level of awareness of secondary school biology teachers of controversial bioethical issues attributable to the variables of gender, academic qualification, and years of experience
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