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As consumers, students now occupy a changing position in the education system with inevitable comparisons drawn between the worth of learning and economic costs, vis-a-vis potential salary. Drawing on Rokeach (The Nature of Human Values. London/New York, Free Press, 1973), value in this chapter is considered as terminal value, or an integrated belief system, sustained and shaped through social and personal interrelations or instrumental values, and which illustrates value as a highly subjective form. Recognising that value is a set of standards and beliefs, which guide and determine the actions towards objects and situations, this chapter draws on creative learning in universities to uncover diverse views and perceptions of value. Drawing on empirical data of higher education performance, the chapter demonstrates how universal approaches can create markedly different experiences, from which different values are constructed. Variations in temporal and ethnic performance mean that standard use of creative and digital heuristics are highly problematic. In an attempt to unravel such complexity, the chapter seeks to unpack student learning styles and belief systems—shaped by a variety of factors and social spaces—as a means of understanding the wider value of a creative degrees, and in doing so sets out action points for universities to outline the real value of a degree and the futility of measuring value of creative thinking through metrics. |
