Contribuições para o debate em torno dos aspectos consensuais em natureza da ciência a partir da teoria da atividade cultural-histórica

The relevance of the discussion on Nature of Science in Science Education has been pointed out in recent years and there have been several approaches that take the construction of scientific knowledge as an educational object. In this article, we bring contributions to the debate around that approach that became known as consensual aspects. We do this through the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, pointing out that the contradictory and contentious character is what drives human activity, and, consequently, the production of scientific knowledge. In this sense, an exaggerated emphasis on consensus, and not on the contradictory, would do little to promote, in Science Education, a critical analysis of science and the society in which it is inserted.