ABSTRACT
The chapter focuses on 4 weeks of ethnographic research in first year pharmaceutical science in an Australian research intensive university. In terms of imagination, establishing a classroom environment that provides a safe place to take risks and welcomes learning from errors is supported in the creativity literature. Student discussion ensues. One student says: 'Scientists have influence on experiments, to try to prove their own theory'. The pattern of teaching initially in this subject is that students watch two 20-minute online video lectures by Owen accompanied by a set of slides in the week leading up to the face-to-face lecture. The lecture focuses on richer discussion aided by clicker questions. In the face-to-face class, Owen asks the students via the clicker poll to identify key ideas for each of the prior experiments: the dependent variable, the hypothesis, the control group, the treatment group and what a theory is.
