Study and Evaluation of Components of Religious Bioethics in Elementary School Science Textbooks

The aim of this study has been to review the textbooks of experimental sciences in elementary school in terms of attention to the components of bioethics. The research method in this research work is content analysis. Society and statistical sample in this research are science books for the first to sixth years of elementary school, in which all the contents of the books, including: writings, pictures, questions, assignments and experiments, have been examined. Content analysis table is prepared using bioethics components based on 4 basic principles including the principle of justice, the principle of satisfaction, the principle of non-harmlessness and the principle of individual independence with respect to privacy, personal and social status and sovereignty. The results of this study indicate that out of a total of 4475 analyzable propositions, 648 propositions (15%) refer to the basic principles of bioethics. The principle of justice with 220 propositions (4.9%), the principle of satisfaction with 218 propositions (4.8%), the principle of no harm with 210 propositions (4.7%) and the principle of privacy, personal and social dignity and sovereignty with 12 propositions (0.2%) has been raised. The results also show that there is no necessary coherence in compiling books in terms of content coherence and in some academic years one or more components of bioethics have not been considered. And in terms of how to present the concepts in different academic years in the form of text, images and questions, there has been no necessary care.