Abstract:
This paper is framed as a short provocation to notions of culture and the relation different meanings and readings of culture have to ideas about education. The paper explores different meanings of culture as seen through anthropological, sociological, and philosophical ‘lenses’, and arrives at a reading of culture through the work of Friedrich Nietzsche. Of primary interest in the paper is the way in which Nietzsche offers an expanded view of culture that reaches beyond common understandings of culture as the description and naming of identity. While acknowledging the necessity for students to explore their own position in the world in relation to others, the paper offers an alternative understanding of culture as cultivation in the form of vital and passionate engagements in education
