Quest for a better understanding of children and cultures: Twenty-first century children’s cultures, rights and education from an anthropological perspective

This paper examines and analyses fundamental arguments regarding the credibility and valuation of the cultural rights of children, as part of a larger debate on the universality of human rights, and the framework of my approach is delimited by the following questions: (I) How do we research and illustrate the complex relation between children´s cultural rights and the cultural diversity of the world today? (II) What position and function do the – formal and informal – education of children have regarding the knowledge on and respect of cultures and humanity in the world today? And finally, (III) what can be done – at local, national and international levels – in order to improve the general understanding of children and human right issues across ethnic, religious and national borders?