BIOETHICS AS AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF NATURAL DISCIPLINES

Abstract

The article analyzes theoretical and methodological principles of professional education in relation to bioethics as an interdisciplinary field in the system of natural sciences, ethics and social knowledge. The applied and ideological aspects of bioethics are substantiated by its purpose and tasks in the preparation of a modern teacher of a secondary school. The notion of bioethics as a system of views, ideas, norms and evaluations governing the behavior of people from the standpoint of life saving on the Earth has been defined, plays an increasingly important role in society and covers all the main directions of human activity, from the development of measures aimed at preservation of the environmentTaking into account the requirements of a humanistic approach, the content, methodology and organizational aspects of the application of bioethics knowledge in the preparation of the future teacher of natural sciences to the implementation of alternative methods and alternative educational means that replace the use of animals in an educational institution are revealed.Among the alternatives that can be used to replace the use of animals in the educational process, the following are proposed: models, mannequins and mechanical simulators; movies and interactive videos; computer simulations and systems of virtual reality; experimenting students on their own; experiments on plants; observation and field practice; invitro techniques on cell culture; the use of dead animals derived from humane sources (for example, animals killed by natural death or killed humanely after scientific research).