Community Engagement,

Solidarity and Citizenship 12

3rd Quarter
Week 1

Development and Quality Assurance Team

Developer: Jovell T. Conde

Evaluator:
Illustrator: Annabel C. Cubero
Learning Area Supervisor:

Illustration Credits:
Title Page : Marieto Cleben V. Lozada
Visual Cues: Ivin Mae M. Ambos

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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. Describe 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.

Learner’s Tasks

Lesson Overview

Take Time and look at the photo carefully.

Have you ever wandered around your own community?
Have you ever thought how community works? Have
you ever thought the role everyone is playing to make
the community work?

The study of community entails us to

understand our very own community life. It gives us
the idea on how to perceive reality by becoming
involve in the day to day process which is socialization.
In the interaction process, people grasp the challenges
of the contemporary community life.

Using the imaginative yet rational ideals of

social sciences, we sought to investigate how socialization may impact the dynamics within the community –
whether it has improved or worsened the present condition. In this module, we are geared towards explaining the
importance of studying community dynamics and community action using the social sciences perspectives by
building framework in dissevering basic information in the following concepts: In this Lesson, we will try to
appreciate the importance of one’s own community and community dynamics; and explain the concept of
community action.

Vocabulary List

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DepEdCommunity - The word
Central Office. Furthermore, community
utilization was derived
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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 Dynamic - The changes in the community brought about by social, cultural and
environmental experiences whether it is positive or negative development that impacts within
the community.

Empowerment - enable the people to independently decide, plan out and take action to control
the situation they have in the community.

Non-geographical Community - t is a community formed based on needs, ideas, interests,

identity, practices, and roles in social institutions.

Geographical Community - It is a community where members share the same geographical

vicinity such as a village, province or neighborhood.

Micro-level community - A community wherein a group is formed based on personal ties

Social Capital - Social capital is a positive product of human interaction. The network of
relationships within particular society, to function effectively.

Lesson 1: The Community We Live In!

What is Community and Why is there a 2

Need in Studying this?

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 Individuals having significant interaction within a specified area becomes one of the contributory factors
in forming community. The word community was derived from the Latin word “communis” which means
“common” or “shared”.

It may share a certain sense of place whether it is geographical area or through a virtual space.
Geographical community is a community where members share the same geographical vicinity such as a
village, province or neighborhood. 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.

Communication and relationships are imperative in building community. As people communicate and
interact, relationships foster. It develops pattern which are adopted in the environment.

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.

Mores, values, and identity is a commonality that form culture. Hence, the interest of social sciences focused in
the study of communities. The following are the 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.

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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.

Lesson 2: Importance of Community Action!

Amid the corona virus scare in the whole country, there have been various organizations who have
continuously given their efforts to at least lessen the impact in education. One of which is ERDA Foundation
Inc., a non-governmental and non-profit organization which has been in service for not less than 45 years
dedicated to helping the poor but deserving Filipino children have access to education. Read and study the short
text below.

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

Hence, the study of community action is imperative in the field of social sciences and other related
disciplines as it lays on the foundation that individuals and families – as basic unit, are embedded in different
social structures that shape the behaviors in the system. Having knowledge in community action makes an
individual understand better by being aware in the environment, have meaningful engagement and accept
empowerment to create significant impact.

Activity 1. Understand, Engage, Empower

Direction: Read the quote below answer only one among the three questions.

“Individuals and families – as basic unit, are embedded in different social structures that shape the behaviors
in the system.”

1. Do you agree that individuals and families shape the behavior in the social system? Why?
2. Create at-lest 5 activity that you can do during this time of pandemic that will create positive behaviors
among your fellow students.
3. Create a journal on the activity that you plan to create positive behaviors among your fellow students.

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Activity 2. Before and After Covid19
Instruction: Write in the diagram below the changes that was brought to you
by COVID 19 Pandemic Before, During and the New Normal.

Before NEW During

Pandemic NORMAL Pandemic

Activity III. Modified TRUE or FALSE

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Examine the statements below and write True if the statement is True and False if the statement is False.

______________ 1. One of the importance in studying the community is that the people see an
opportunity to understand the policies within and values social capital.

______________ 2. The interaction taking place in the community is socialization.

______________ 3. Changes in the community can be brought about by social, cultural and
environmental experiences.

______________ 4. Community dynamics any activity that aims to increase the understanding,
engagement and empowerment of communities for the intention of giving
services to people.

______________ 5. Community action -the changes in the community brought about social,
cultural and environmental experiences whether it is positive or negative
development that impacts within the community.

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Answer Key
Activity I – Answer may vary
Activity II – Answer may vary
Activity III
1. True 2. True 3. True 4. False 5. False

Reference

Semorlan, Semorlan; Community Dynamics and Community Action, “Community,

Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship

Benedict Lumague, October 27, 2020 Accessed February 19, 2021

https://www.scribd.com/document/481791125/HUMSS-Q1-CESC-Module-1/Lategan_LG_Chapter_9.pdf?
sequence=10&fbclid=IwAR2qhsHfVyaXkynGUw2LM https://tinyurl.com/mcfkwt5c

Accessed February 19, 2021,

https://ec.europa.eu/echo/files/evaluation/watsan2005/annex_files/WEDC/es/ES1 CD.pdf?f
bclid=IwAR25yajXrF-Q0Z lOQJZGMP8pdGhiX2bkGxFej98h4B3luimVoCttjqN2xc

http://filipinocares.blogspot.com/2016/12/filipino-value-bayanihan.html
Sabado, Disyembre 3, 2016

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https://tinyurl.com/65x6xyd4

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