Community

Engagement
Solidarity and
Citizenship
 K to 12 BASIC EDUCATION CURRICULUM
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL – ACADEMIC TRACK
Grade: 12 Semester: 2nd
Subject Title: Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship (CSC)
No. of Hours/ Semester: 80 hours/ semester
Prerequisite: Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences; Discipline and
Ideas in the Applied Social Sciences; & Philippine Politics and Governance
Subject Description: This course focuses on the application of ideas and methods
of the social sciences to understand, investigate, and examine challenges of
contemporary community life. It focuses on community-action initiatives such as
community engagement, solidarity, and citizenship as guided by the core values of
human rights, social justice, empowerment and advocacy, gender equality, and
participatory development. It aims at enhancing students’ sense of shared identity
and willingness to contribute to the pursuit of the common good of the community. It
enables students to integrate applied social sciences into community-action
initiatives.
Competency 1A: 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 (2 hours)

Objectives: At the end of this lesson, the learners are expected to:
1. understand the meaning of community;
2. identify the types of community;
3. appreciate the importance of studying the community and its dynamics; and
4. learn the social science for future career options
Exercise 1.0 I Dream
Instructions: Complete the statement below and answer the questions
that follows: (10 minutes)
I, ______________________, dream to be a/an __________ in the future.
(Name) (Dream)

1. What influenced you to form this dream?

2. How do you think this dream will help your future family and the
community?
3. Why do you think that this dream is essential?
4. Is your dream still reachable in your current standing as grade 12
student?
 What is
community?

A community is a group of people who share something in common. You

can define a community by the shared attributes of the people in it and/or
by the strength of the connections among them. You need a bunch of
people who are alike in some way, who feel some sense of belonging or
interpersonal connection.
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality
such as norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may
share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a
country, village, town, or neighbourhood) or in virtual space through
communication platforms. Durable relations that extend beyond immediate
genealogical ties also define a sense of community, important to their
identity, practice, and roles in social institutions such as family, home, work,
government, society, or humanity at large. Although communities are
usually small relative to personal social ties, "community" may also refer to
large group affiliations such as national communities, international
communities, and virtual communities.
The English-language word "community" derives from the Old French
comuneté (currently "Communauté"), which comes from the Latin
communitas "community", "public spirit" (from Latin communis, "common").
Human communities may share intent, belief, resources, preferences,
needs, and risks in common, affecting the identity of the participants and
their degree of cohesiveness.
According to David M. Chavis & Kien Lee, “Community” is so easy to say.
The word itself connects us with each other. It describes an experience
so common that we never really take time to explain it. It seems so simple,
so natural, and so human.
In the social sector, we often add it to the names of social innovations
as a symbol of good intentions (for example, community mental health,
community policing, community-based philanthropy, community economic
development).
However, the meaning of community is complex. Insufficient
understanding of what a community is and its role in the lives of people in
diverse societies has led to the downfall of many well-intended “community”
efforts.
Types of Community
A formal group is formed when people come together to accomplish
specific goals and objectives.
An informal group is formed when two or more people come together to
accomplish a specific task which is mainly socially geared.
An urban area is the region surrounding a city. An area with high density of
population.
A rural area is an open swath of land that has few homes or other
buildings, and not very many people. A rural area’s population density is
very low.
A global community are the people or nations of the world, considered as
being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being
economically, socially, and politically interdependent.
Sectoral means relating to the various economic sectors of a society or to
a particular economic sector.
A social space is physical or virtual space such as a social center, online
social media, or other gathering place where people gather and interact.

There are, broadly speaking, five common features of communities.

You can classify every type of community by the purpose that brings them
together.
1. Interest. Communities of people who share the same interest or passion.
2. Action. Communities of people trying to bring about change.
3. Place. Communities of people brought together by geographic
boundaries.
4. Practice. Communities of people in the same profession or undertake the
same activities.
5. Circumstance. Communities of people brought together by external
events/situations.
Importance of Studying Community
1. It motivates people to work together – people feel a sense of
community and recognize the benefits of their involvement.)
2. It encourages social, religious, or traditional obligations for mutual
help.
3. People see a genuine opportunity to better their own lives and for the
community
4. It understands policies promoting community participation that
values social capital
5. Community participation could be understood as the direct involvement
of citizenry in the affairs of planning, governance, and overall
development programs at local or grassroot levels.
About 90% of community projects, especially branded communities, try to
develop a community of interest. But a community of interest competes with
our mental leisure time. Communities of interest are the hardest type of
community to develop.
Community Dynamics is the process of change and development in
communities of all living organisms—including plants, microorganisms, and
small and large creatures of every sort. Populations of an organism will
appear in an environment as its requirements for establishment are met.
What could it be used for?
For commissioners, policy-makers and anybody else involved in the
design and delivery of local services, Community Dynamics data can be
used to bring additional depth into the understanding of your local areas.
Particularly, these data sets could have a role to play in projects and
initiatives looking to work in a more asset-based way.
Importance of Understanding Community Dynamics and Community
Action
Community Dynamics is the change and development involved in a
community that includes all forms of living organisms.
Community Action is putting communities as the center of the services
development and services delivery. This initiative aims to cater the primary
needs of the communities before implementing it. In such way, community
action will help the community dynamics or the degree of improvement of
the community.
It is important to understand these two because these will propel the
success and stability of the communities. They go hand in hand and are
proportionally related.
What is community action?
Community action is any activity that increases the understanding,
engagement and empowerment of communities in the design and delivery of
local services. It 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.
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:
• Building community and social capacity – helping the community to
share knowledge, skills and ideas.
• Community resilience – helping the community to support itself.
• Prevention – a focus on early access to services or support, engagement
in design, cross-sector collaboration and partnerships.
• Maintaining and creating wealth – for example helping people into
employment or developing community enterprises.

Role of the Community

The role the community includes community consultation, joint planning,
joint design, joint delivery and community-led activities.

Applied Social Sciences

These are social science disciplines, professions and occupations which
seek to use basic social science research and theory to improve the daily
life of communities, organizations and persons.
What can I do with my degree in Social Sciences?

Social Science Careers

The occupations listed below are a selection of those which may interest
Social Sciences students and graduates from the School of Social Policy,
Sociology and Social Research.

Advice Worker- Advice Workers provide information, advice and guidance

on a range of topics depending on the role. These topics may include
housing, employment, welfare, education, finance and law.
Civil Service Career- The Civil Service delivers public services according to
government policies. There are a large number of different departments and
so a huge variety of different roles.
Charity Officer- here are a variety of different roles within charities including
project management, volunteer co-ordination and fund raising.
Community Development Worker- Working in communities and liaising
with different agencies to bring about change and improvements. Some
work may be targeted towards certain groups of people e.g. the unemployed
or the homeless.
Community Education Officer- Promoting and coordinating a range of
educational options to members of a local community.
Equality and Diversity Officer- Equality Officers promote diversity and
work to ensure that people are treated fairly and not discriminated against
for characteristics including race, gender, age or disability.
Family Support Worker- Working with families facing a variety of difficulties
and helping them to solve problems and move forward.
Housing Officer- Housing Officers work for local authorities or housing
associations to manage rented accommodation including solving problems
raised by tenants, organizing maintenance, allocating properties and dealing
with payment issues.
Housing Policy Officers develop policies for local authorities or housing
associations.
Human Resources Officer- Human Resources Officers aim to ensure that
organizations have a skilled and efficient workforce. They are involved in
recruitment and selection, training and development, grievance and
discipline and provide advice on employment law.
Immigration, Customs and Border Roles- There are a variety of roles
involving monitoring people, banned substances and other goods leaving
and entering the country to ensure safety and security and to maintain the
law.
Intelligence Analyst- Analyzing and assessing intelligence data largely for
the purposes of security and crime prevention.
International Aid/Development Worker- Working to improve the lives of
people in developing countries.
Legal Careers- Providing legal services to clients.
Local Government Careers- Developing policies and delivering local
services. There are a huge variety of roles within local government including
roles in social care, housing and education to name just a few.
Mediator- Working with people to help them solve conflicts and
disagreements.
Police Officer- Police Officers work to make communities safer by
maintaining the law and preventing crime.
Prison Officer- Prison Officers are responsible for maintaining security in
prisons and supporting the rehabilitation of prisoners.
Probation Officer- Probation Officers work with offenders and aim to
reduce rates of re-offending and protect the public.
Psychologist- There are a range of different psychologist roles but broadly
they help clients to improve their psychological well being.
Psychotherapy, Counselling and mental Roles- Supporting people to
overcome a range of psychological or emotional difficulties.
In your notebook, answer the following questions.
1.) Define Community in your own words.
2.) Give three (3) reasons why do we need to study community.
3.) Describe your community in one (1) word, and why?
4.) List down at least five (5) activities in your community that you actively
engaged in.
5.) Give at least five contributions you did in your community as an
individual.
Activity
1.) Make a non-sequential blocks in your notebook focusing in the Social
Science Careers listed above, select the top five (5) priority career you
want in the future.
(Note: Limit 5 careers only and you can have your own graphical design)

Top 1 Career Top 2 Career

Top 3 Career Top 4 Career Top 5 Career

Instructions: Match each statement in Column A with what it describes in
Column B. Write the letter of the answer in your notebook.
Column A Column B
1 A human settlement with a high population density. A. Social Science
2. Areas have a low population density and B. Rural Community
small settlements. C. Community Action Plan
3. Known as the change and development D. Community Dynamics
involved in a community that includes all forms E. Social Space
of living organisms. F. Community
4. A physical or virtual space such as a G. Urban Community
social center, online social media, or other H. Sociology
gathering place where people gather and
interact.
5. A situation putting communities as the
center of the services development
and services delivery.
6. A group of people who share something
in common.
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