Abstract:
The research is part of the Education, Culture, Theories and Pedagogical Processes Research Line of the Master's Degree in Education at the Faculty of Inhumas. Situated in the theoretical-investigative field of Didactics, the research addresses mediation as a legal category and object of the Consensual Forms of Conflict Resolution discipline, as well as mediation as a philosophical and pedagogical category in the training of students in that discipline. Considering that the cultural-historical theory has mediation as one of its central concepts and also the need to boost the development of students in the Consensus Forms of Conflict Resolution discipline to strengthen their mediating capacity, the problem that motivated this research was: what contributions does Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory offer to teaching in the Consensus Forms of Conflict Solution discipline? It was defined as a general objective to demonstrate the contribution of Vigotski’s historical-cultural theory to teaching-learning in the Consensual Forms of Conflict Solution discipline, in the Law degree. The specific objectives were: to present the historical, cultural and legislative evolution of conflict mediation in Brazil; to analyze the main concepts of the cultural-historical theory pointing its contributions to the teaching-learning in the Consensual Forms of Conflict Resolution discipline of the Law degree; and to discuss the role of mediation in the conception of Vygotski’s Historical-cultural theory for teaching-learning in this subject. The bibliographical research was used as a procedure, a theoretical-narrative qualitative study was carried out. Publications were analyzed, especially articles and books, in addition to the legislation that regulates mediation. It was concluded that the application of the cultural-historical theory to the Consensus Forms of Conflict Resolution discipline will allow the student to gradually evolve, enabling the student to peacefully resolve daily conflicts, including their own, and, with this, be trained as well to help resolve conflicts of third parties, becoming, after their formation, an active subject in the pacification of conflicts.