Human rights, education and interculturality: Tensions between equality and difference

Abstract

This article presents some questions related to the importance of culture in the present moment. It discusses the relevance of the human rights discourse within this context, taking as its main interlocutor the sociologist Boaventura Sousa Santos. It analyses different approaches to multiculturalism. It justifies the relevance of the intercultural perspective adopted and points to challenges considered to be of particular importance for developing the relationships between intercultural education and human rights.