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LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET IN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY AND

CITIZENSHIP 12
QUARTER 1 – WEEK 1

Most Essential Learning Competencies:


• Explain the importance of studying community dynamics and community action in
relation to applied social sciences and the learners’ future career options
(HUMSS_CSC12-IIIa-c-1)

Objectives: At the end of the week, the students should be able to:
1. Identify the importance of studying community dynamic;
2. Differentiate community dynamic from community action;
3. Relate the importance of studying community dynamics and community action for future
career options.

Key Concepts:

Lesson 1: The Community We Live In!

Individuals having significant interaction within a specified area becomes one of the
contributory factors in forming a community. The word community was derived from the Latin
word “communis” which means “common” or “shared”.
• Geographical community is a community where members share the same geographical
vicinity such as a village, province or neighborhood. A social group of any size whose
members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural
and historical heritage.
• Non-geographical community is a community formed based on needs, ideas, interests,
identity, practices, and roles in social institutions such as at home, all work, in government,
society, or the community at large. Community is a social, religious, occupational, or other
group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as
distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists.

Communities may also be in two levels:


a. Micro-level community - a group that is formed based on personal ties. This may include
groups formed for pursuing common interests or goals like forming a small organization to
hold a fund-raising activity such as concerts.
b. Macro-level community - large group affiliation is formed such as national communities,
international communities, and virtual communities. Companies and corporations may
develop various programs that would include different members across the country. They
will work on meeting certain objectives and expand on the aspect of community
involvement.

Understanding community life makes us value the things we have on a daily basis, social
encounter constructs reality and affects some changes within – this is Community dynamics.
The changes in the community are brought about by social, cultural and environmental
experiences whether it is positive or negative development that impacts within the community.
People adopt the changes and it has shaped their way of life.
➢ Such activities relate to the creation or advancement of goods, services and policies that
specifically support a particular community. Factors such as the needs of the society, the
interests of the citizens and the availability of resources have been addressed in the process.
Community dynamics and collective intervention fall under the umbrella of economics
because they are highly dependent on human resources [the labor force]. Those are
mentioned, but it is fair to suggest that economics plays a critical role in the understanding
of community dynamics through collective action.
Lesson 2: Importance of Community Action!

Community Action is any activity that aims to increase the understanding, engagement
and empowerment of communities for the intention of giving services to people.

Community action includes a broad range of activities and is sometimes described as ‘social
action' or ‘community engagement'. These activities can vary in their objective, the role the
community plays, the types of activities involved, their scale and their integration within the
council. What they have in common is that they all involve greater engagement of local citizens in
the planning, design and delivery of local services.
There are 3-key points in grasping the definition more meaningful:

➢ Understanding – raise an awareness about certain communal issues that needs to be


addressed. People develop the feeling of involvement once they truly comprehend the situation
within. They come together to support advocacies that will overcome community needs and
difficulties.

➢ Engagement – Once issues are assessed properly and people in the community understand the
needs, they work collaboratively to act on it. The main goal of engaging in the community is to
improve the partnership and coalitions among the community. It is important that engagement
occurs so that members will be able to involve meaningfully in the activities that they have created.

➢ Empowerment – enable the people to independently decide, plan-out and take action to control
the situation they have in the community. This means, initiative and decisions come from internal
group organized for the benefit of everyone. It is also necessary that the community can provide
significant networks and linkages that will genuinely serve the advocacies that they have built.

Why is community action important?


Community action is about putting communities at the heart of their own local services.
Involving communities in the design and delivery of services can help to achieve a number of
objectives, including:
1. Building community and social capacity – helping the community to share knowledge,
skills and ideas.
2. Community resilience – helping the community to support itself.
3. Prevention – a focus on early access to services or support, engagement in design, cross-
sector collaboration and partnerships.

4. Maintaining and creating wealth – for example helping people into employment or
developing community enterprises.

Activity 1: In an A4 bond paper, draw and describe a community where you belong.

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