Educator Nietzsche: the artistic process of becoming what it is…

• Main Author: Vilmar Martins
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Essentia Editora IFFluminense 2018-08-01
• Series: Vértices
• Subjects: Arte. Educação. Vida. Valores. Nietzsche.
• Online Access: http://essentiaeditora.iff.edu.br/index.php/vertices/article/view/10023

This text aims to think of education as an artistic process of human formation and human existence. In the wake of the criticisms that point to the formative process as homogenization and reduction of the human type to a single formation, this essay indicates the possibility of an education for singularity. Thinking along with Nietzsche, it lies methodologically beyond a set of premises and defend arguments, trying to explain, narrate and propose radical thoughts about education and life. Thus, it brings art as an element that enables education to be thought beyond immediate needs, art as an instrument that allows one to think of an education for life, not for an occupation or for an accumulation of knowledge. A formation to become what one is, without prior judgment of what we should be, but an opening to the multiple perspectives of human configuration. Triggered by the theme, it projects some characteristics of an education, of an educator and of an educated person imbued in an artistic process, where life is the work of art. It presupposes that life is becoming and that our pedagogical theories do not account for this existential move, so it causes us to think of an education as an artistic process, with no ultimate purpose, but a constant becoming what we are.