Grade: Self-Learning Module in Lesson
Grade: Self-Learning Module in Lesson
Grade: Self-Learning Module in Lesson
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Self-Learning COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY AND
Module in CITIZENSHIP
The Importance of Studying Community Dynamics and
Lesson: Community Action in Relation to Applied Social Sciences
and the Learner’s Future Career Options
Quarter: III Week: Day and Time: See Class program
Learning competency/ies:
Explain the importance of studying community dynamics and community
action in relation to applied social sciences and the learners’ future career
options
Define using various perspective, e.g., social sciences, institutions, civil society
and local/grassroots level
Learning Tasks:
Study Notebook Activity Sheet
Pre-Test, p.2 Activity 1, p.9
Post-Test, p. 11 Activity 2, p.10
Activity 3 p. 10
I. INTRODUCTION
In this learning material, you will be introduced to the basics of community
dynamics, community action and community initiatives, and you would come to know
and understand the very concept which is the basis of all those concepts which is
community.
This learning material shall be comprised of two lessons which you shall be studying
for two weeks. And, after going through these topics, you are expected to attain the
following:
Learning Competency
Week 1. Explain the Importance of Studying Community Dynamics and
Community Action in Relation to Applied Social Sciences and the Learner’s Future
Career Options. HUMSS_CSC12-llla-c-1.
Learning objectives:
1. Discuss the nature of community dynamics and community action.
2. Discuss the relationship between applied social sciences and community
dynamics and community action.
3. Identify future career pans and relate it with community dynamics and
community action
Learning Competency
Week 2. Define community using different perspective, e.g., social sciences,
institutions, civil society, and local/grassroots level. HUMSS_CSC12-a-c-2
Learning objectives:
1. Define community along the lines of social sciences.
2. Define community from the point-of-view of the different institutions like the
church and schools, and the civil society like the nongovernmental organizations.
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II. PRE-TEST. Arrange Me
Jumbled words Meaning Word
CERAHTE One who acts as our second parent in school.
The main task of a Psychology graduate when
employed in a school and usually done at the
LNSICUEOGN
guidance office.
UMCMOYITN Group of people living in a definite territory
and share a lot of commonalities.
EMCRI An example of which is murder and this is one
act to be dealt with by police officers.
YSOPCYGOHL This is the college program which the second
word has to complete.
DBGROANSCATI One of the possible jobs of graduate of a
communication program.
SCLOIA KORW An applied social science discipline which
requires field work.
PLOEPE The cientle, in general, of applied social
sciences.
The people in the community who wpuld
become the core persons when community
SFFLOICAI
programs are impemnted.
The act of living or staying with the members
of a certain sector of the community for
ISMREMINO
observation or participation purposes.
Direction. Rearrange the jumbled words on the left part and be guided by the stated
meanings. These are words related to community action and dynamics, applied social
sciences and career choices.
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Dynamics and Community Action in
Relation to Applied Social Sciences and the
Learner’s Future Career Options
Discover
It is said that the only time that we realize who and what we are is when we have
immersed ourselves within the community, that we would not discover our essential us
unless we mingle with other people. So, what is this community? What are its peculiarities
and how are these connected to our chosen future careers and what could be their
relationship to applied social sciences?
Nature of Community
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According to Kathleen M. MacQueen et.al, (2001, American Journal of Public
Health), a community is a “group of people with diverse characteristics who are linked by
social ties, share common perspectives, and engage in joint action in geographical locations
or settings.” Add to this the definition given by the Business Dictionary which states that a
community is a “self-organized network of people with common agenda, cause, or interest,
who collaborate by sharing ideas, information, and other resources.” Lastly, Chavis and Lee
(2015) wrote that a community is both a feeling and a set of relationships among people.
If we are to sum it up, a community refers to the people who live and coexist with
each other and who share a lot of things in common. Despite the fact that these people
possess characteristics different from each other, there could be a meeting of minds at
certain points like their ideas over matters involving their coexistence, about their cultural
perspectives or regarding their established relationships, or the like. And these people have
built relationships anchored from trust, love, and sense of belongingness, compassion and
responsibility.
There is but one thing trivial about communities and this concerns the territorial or
geographical setting. Not in all instances do the people who comprise a community live close
to each other, because in some scenarios there could be people who live miles away from
each other but they still consider themselves as belonging to one and the same community.
(More discussion about this in the succeeding learning materials.)
Before we shall take the other integrative concepts of community, let us summarize
the peculiar features (as culled from www.yourarticlelibrary.com/society) of community.
They are the following:
Community action
According to Local Government Association (info@local.gov.uk ), 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 which are sometimes called ‘social action' or ‘community engagement’. As per this
definition, we are made to understand that community action is in itself the sum total of the
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collective endeavor of the people. An example of which is capacitating the women in the
production of face masks using indigenous or local materials. In the said sample activity, the
women would not only be trained but they will be empowered- empowered in the sense that
these women will be given an employment opportunity not just for a day or a week but
probably for months or even a year or years. A mere clean-up drive or tree-planting would be
a community activity but it lacks a long- range empowerment, therefore it does not answer to
the call of a community action.
Community action programs bear different objectives. They also differ in terms of the
involvement of the people, with particular reference to the identified sector and the
identified officials and the program focal person as well. And, there is a variation of kinds of
activities, like the conduct of leadership training or literacy program or health awareness or
food preservation training-workshop and the like. Bottom line, whatever the activity is, all of
these community action programs are geared towards engagement and empowerment of the
people and these same people shall be capacitated with the skills of planning, designing and
delivery of local services.
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empowered members of the community, from the children through the youth to the elderly.
It goes without saying that no matter how good and efficient the leaders are if the people
living in it are in a pitiful state, everything would be of no use. Strength is determined not
only with the number of population or the size of the territory but with the empowerment
exuded by all of the members of said community. The human resource of the community is
more that the physical and geographical make-up. At the end of the day, when the
community folks have all been vitalized, the entire community becomes dynamic.
Community action is about putting communities at the heart of their own local
services. (https://brainly.ph/question/152455#)
This means that the people in the community are motivated in making the
community’s objectives and needs as their focus and they themselves will be the
ones taking charge of the services to satisfy such. The community members are the
participants to any community action initiative and whatever and however they are
capacitated, they themselves will be the ones who shall deliver the identified service
and gain from it.
Community resilience.
This means that the community could become self-sustaining with the skills
and knowledge they are capacitated with. For instance, the women sector are made
to undergo trainings like basket-weaving or the male sector are given a training on
handicrafts production using local materials, then the community is able to support
itself economically. When the community becomes a self-sustaining entity, then the
community as a whole shall be able to withstand whatever problems, difficulties and
issues that will get in their way.
Community dynamics
What is meant by community dynamics? What has it to do with the
community? Does it have any significance at all in community initiatives and
community development programs?
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enthusiasm, and any other positive stimulus within the person and beyond him, so
as to bring about growth and development or any welcome change in the person.
For a more thorough understanding of what community dynamics is, let us take a
look at the indicators of its significance, which is summarized as follows:
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Most of the community action programs designed and implemented are related to the
tasks of Social Workers, Communication practitioners or Teachers or Counsellors and the
like. Examples of which are Reading Program for the Children and the Youth, Leadership
Training and a lot more. It goes without saying then that community action and Applied
Social Sciences work together and would provide the appropriate training for the would-be-
graduates of college programs aligned with Applied Social Sciences.
Lesson
Community using different perspective,
By now you already have an idea with regards the nature of community from
the general social perspective. As mentioned earlier, the concept shall in a while be
described according to how it is viewed by the social sciences, the different
institutions, by the members of the grassroots and by the civil society.
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realized and such role-taking must be looked into by the concerned political
institution to sustain order therein. From the micro level, we could take the
barangay as our best example to elucidate this definition of community.
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The members of this nongovernmental organization are not altogether
geographically located rather they come from different municipalities of La Union.
They were brought together by a common cause or objective which are to promote
women empowerment and child growth and welfare
(https://m.facebook.com/LaUnionVibrantWomen/ ). Taking the specific example in
the LUVWI, this nongovernmental organization may have viewed the community as
a an avenue to extend help to a specific sector which is perceived to be in need of
help.
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Activity 2. “My Point of View”
Direction. There are three questions or scenarios below for you to discuss. Explain
each according to your own understanding. Each item shall merit ten points each.
Your explanation shall be composed of 3-5 sentences.
1. Do community action and community dynamics pose any significance to a
communications practitioner? Expound your answer.
2. Social worker Danaya was not exposed to actual community action programs
earlier. She is now on a field work at a remit barangay.
3. Do you think she will perform her task efficiently and effectively? Why? Why not?
Content (3) Mechanics (3) Originality (2) Neatness (2)
Relevant to the Use of Proper Statements or Minimal
topic. Language sentences are not erasures
Related or Use of correct spelling copy-pasted. Use of one color
or vocabulary. of ball pen ink.
connected
Use of proper or correct
statements.
punctuation marks.
Grammatically
Follow the prescribed
correct sentences.
number of
words/times.
Direction. Enumerate what is asked for and write them down below.
1. Name at least five aggrupation’s which are identified with civil society.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
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1. They are the members of the bigger society who perceive the
community as more than a mere network of socialization because it is
a relationship among people which will allow dependence and
support for each other.
2. This discipline of social sciences perceives the community to be
an aggrupation of closely bonded persons because of kinship.
3. This refers to the primary binding factor of the members of an
institution of religious faith.
4. What is this institution which is perceived to cater to the needs
of consumers and the other clientele?
5. The La Union Vibrant Women Incorporated is an example of what
civil society aggrupation?
6. Which of the institutions mentioned earlier is perceived as the kind
of community which nurtures the learners by honing their
skills and enhancing their knowledge?
7. Aside from the promotion of child growth and welfare, what is the
other objective of LUVWI?
8. It is the social science discipline which perceives the community
as such because of its polis-like characteristic.
9. This institution perceives the community to be an aggrupation of
practitioners who are wont on catering to the medical needs and issues
of the people.
10.It is perceived differently by different entities, depending on the
objectives and purposes it serves.
IV. POST-TEST Guess What!
Direction. Identify what is asked for and write the correct answer the space
provided for before each number.
V. ANSWER KEY
References
• Printed Materials
Taguibao and de Guzman. Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship. (2017). Quezon
City, Philippines. Vibal Publications.
• Websites
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1446907/
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/community.html
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/what_is_community_anyway https://www.local.gov.gov.uk/our-
supprt/guidance-and- resources/community action/community
https://transition2008-wordpress- com. .cdn.ampprject.org/v/s/transition 2008.wordpress
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312529167_Grassroots_Perception
https://brainy.ph/question/1129727
Uploaded by Veronica de Guzman, 2009.https://www.scribd.com/doc/52734994/LIST-OF-NGO
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ROSALES NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
SENIOR DEPARTMENT
Don Antonio Village, Rosales, Pangasinan
INSTRUCTION: Detach and submit this Worksheet together with the activity
sheets.
WORKSHEET
Name: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT,
Subject: SOLIDARITY AND
Grade/Section: CITIZENSHIP
Subj. Teacher: Week: 1-2
I. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Test/Activity Score
A. Pre-Test
B. Post Test
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B. Justify Me!
Direction. Below are scenarios or questions which you have to analyze and
understand. A categorical yes or no answer will not merit a point, so, you have
to expound your answer with a three-liner justification.
1. Mang Ando, Ka Waldo, Aling Puring, Ka Simo and Ka Saling are members of
the Barangay Matiwasay Farmers’ Cooperative. They joined the group because
they believed that the cooperative could facilitate in satisfying whatever
deficiencies in their provisions with reference to farming implements and in
their basic needs. What perspective of community is applied in this scenario?
Why?
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assistance?
Was the given assistance helpful for you to understand better the lesson?
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