Education for active citizenship Implementation: a learning intervention carried out in a primary school concerning the history lesson based on Kolb’s learning cycle.

This paper aims at highlighting the ways with which the concept of citizenship is built in primary school. In particular, it seeks to highlight the learning processes which function as grounds of building experience and which are crucial for developing the perception of relations between the self and the community within the context of the concept of active citizen. Therefore, the essential issue of how to built the concept of active citizen in school as part of the learning process, highlights the need to develop learning environments that are supported by experiential practices that reflect essential messages and cultivate expectations for active individual public action. By adopting Kolb’s model of learning cycle we form learning bridges with History and present the application and results of the teaching intervention in the classroom.