1. Community immersion involves trainees living in and experiencing all aspects of community life in order to understand community concerns, dynamics, and ways of life.
2. When immersed in a community, trainees should identify community interests and aspirations by associating with potential collaborators like community organizations and informal groups.
3. Personal gains for trainees include comprehending people's lives, gaining social acceptance, enhancing skills like asset mapping, and establishing relationships within the community.
1. Community immersion involves trainees living in and experiencing all aspects of community life in order to understand community concerns, dynamics, and ways of life.
2. When immersed in a community, trainees should identify community interests and aspirations by associating with potential collaborators like community organizations and informal groups.
3. Personal gains for trainees include comprehending people's lives, gaining social acceptance, enhancing skills like asset mapping, and establishing relationships within the community.
1. Community immersion involves trainees living in and experiencing all aspects of community life in order to understand community concerns, dynamics, and ways of life.
2. When immersed in a community, trainees should identify community interests and aspirations by associating with potential collaborators like community organizations and informal groups.
3. Personal gains for trainees include comprehending people's lives, gaining social acceptance, enhancing skills like asset mapping, and establishing relationships within the community.
1. Community immersion involves trainees living in and experiencing all aspects of community life in order to understand community concerns, dynamics, and ways of life.
2. When immersed in a community, trainees should identify community interests and aspirations by associating with potential collaborators like community organizations and informal groups.
3. Personal gains for trainees include comprehending people's lives, gaining social acceptance, enhancing skills like asset mapping, and establishing relationships within the community.
CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY IMMERSION WHAT IS A COMMUNITY?
According to development specialist Arlien
Johnson, the term ‘community’ refers to a group of people gathered together in any geographic area, large or small, who have common interests, actual or potentially recognized in the social welfare field. As per concept, a community may be categorized a geographical or functional:.
A. The term geographical community is
defined in the purview of group of persons living in the same geographical location like in a certain village, town, neighborhood, district, area, or territory. B. Meanwhile, community is said to be functional nature if the aggregate of people through not necessary based on living in the same geographical location, is bonded by a common end such as fighting for the same cause, having the same interest and goals. ELEMENTS OF A COMMUNITY
As a trainee, one should be aware of elements of a
community in order to understand the dynamics thereof. The important elements of community are: demographics, history, culture, economy, and structures.
-The demographics (characteristics of population)
tell a lot about the movement in the community that you will serve. -History allows you to identify certain patterns of change and people’s way of adapting these changes that can be useful in plotting your activities.
-Understanding the economy, culture, and community
structures increase the chances of the success of activities since anyone can provide culture- based and more realistic solutions to community concerns. WHAT IS COMMUNITY IMMERSION?
COMMUNITY IMMERSION
- It is an essential strategy in community organizing
work that entails understanding of the different community concerns, process, dynamics and lifestyle through exposure and engaging in different activities. In view of the fact that immersion is a major concern in development work, trainees may find it significant to be guided by the following concepts: 1. Trainees should immerse in actual community life to get to know the social, political, and economic situation of people
2. Trainees may also undergo certain
changes like increase in knowledge about the social realities, etc. 3. Trainees should identify the community people’s interest and aspirations
4. Trainees must recognize people’s
resiliency and does not rob them of their right to have community participation and determination of appropriate courses of action. 5. Trainees should be aware of the gain-negotiated sanction.
6. Trainees must reflect on how their
social analysis of the current situation is concretized in community people’s lives. The following are the forms of integration in community immersion:
a. Home visits b. Living with selected families preferably with key informants c. Informal discussion with individuals or groups d. Sharing in household and community activities e. Attendance in social gatherings f. Assistance in production work Whom do you immerse within the community?
When one goes to a community,
he/she associates with the people whom intends to work with as partners. Community-based service projects must be premised on the principle of people empowerment and not the ‘dole-out mentality’. The parents, youth, the differently- abled constituents, professionals, members of people’s organizations, and other formal and informal group, and others who can be a potential collaborator of your projects or activities. We do not just work for and serve the people but rather we encourage their participation. This practice of enjoining people’s support is adherent to the Confucian’ philosophy of “give man a fish and he will live for a day; teach him how to fish and he will live for a lifetime.” CONDITIONS IN COMMUNITY IMMERSION
It is so desired that one fundamental pre-
requisite qualification among those who intend or are tasked to undergo community immersion is a full understanding of the concepts and theories behind the dynamics of groups and community. In the same breath, knowing the very process of immersion is a primordial condition. This is so because this endeavour requires a great deal of know- how and skills in facilitating interventions, planning and managing community service projects, among others. Training wise, community developers/organizers and social workers are most qualified because it is assumed that they have more or less formal background on carrying out these kinds of undertaking. As for NSTP, students enrolled in NSTP- CWTS/LTS 2 are mandated to undergo community immersion for a period covering a minimum of 54 hours to a maximum of 90 hours as cited from CHED-prescribed Program of Instruction (POI), 2007 edition. What Personal Gains from Community Immersion?
The community immersion aspect of NSTP will
be able to benefit not only the communities served but more so the student- trainees who may be accorded with the following advantages: -Opportunity for the trainees to comprehend people’s lives -Gain social acceptance from community relations -Enhance experiences in conducting asset mapping -Establish rapport and relationship with different people THANK YOU!!!
Lesson 1 The importance of studying community dynamics and community action in relation to applied social sciences and the learners` future career options
Lesson 1 The importance of studying community dynamics and community action in relation to applied social sciences and the learners` future career options
