COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY, AND CITIZENSHIP – GRADE 12

Name: ______________________________________ Date: ____________________

Grade: ______________________________________ Section: ___________________

Quarter: 1 Week: 1 SSLM No. 1 MELC(s): explain the importance of studying

community dynamics and community action in relation to
applied social sciences and the learners' future career options
Week 1 HUMSS_CSC12-IIIa-c-1
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⮚ Objective: Identify the importance of studying the community action.
⮚ Title of Textbook/LM to Study: Module: 1 Topic: Community Dynamics
and Community Action Self-Learning Module

Let Us Discover

Community Dynamics and Community Action

What is Community and Why is there a Need in Studying this?

When studying a community, one must first grasp what constitutes a

community, as well as community dynamics and behavior. 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”. In general, communities are defined
by their shared cultural history, language, beliefs, and interests. 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.

In order to develop a community, communication and relationships are

essential. Relationships develop as people speak and interact. It creates a pattern that
is used in the surroundings. Communities may also be in two levels: Micro-level
community, a group 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. At macro-level, large group affiliation is
formed such as national communities, international communities, and virtual

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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.

Community Dynamics refers to the progress and development of a

community, which encompasses all types of living beings. It is 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. It may share
a certain sense of place whether it is geographical area or through a virtual space.

Community Action refers to putting communities at the center of service

development and delivery. It is any activity that aims to increase the understanding,
engagement and empowerment of communities for the intention of giving services to
people. Before implementing this effort, it attempts to provide the basic necessities of
the communities. As a result, community action will aid community dynamics or the
degree to which the community improves. It is critical to comprehend these two since
they will drive the communities' development and stability. They are proportionally
related and go hand in hand.

The dynamics of a community is determined by its nature and structure and

how it reacts with external or internal forces. It's crucial to grasp a community's
qualities and attributes in order to comprehend why it acts and reacts the way it does.
Here are the following features of community:

1. A community is defined by a sociological construct, or a set of human

interactions or behaviors that have significance and expectations for its members.
2. A community's boundaries are hazy or unclear, and they have remained that
way to this day. People engage not only with those in their village, but also with those
outside of it.
3. A community can exist within a larger community including districts, regions,
ethnic groups, nations, and other boundaries
4. A community may relocate in order to find work.

Moreover, a community, in order to have its dynamics at play, needs power

actors to bring about its n actors to bring about its needed change. These powers
needed change. These power actors should have the car. Actors should have the
capacity to influence the decision-making and distribution processes to get things done
in a community. This reality indicates that to work in a community or to undertake
community interventions is a challenging task. Finally, development work requires
understanding community dynamics and processes.

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 Let Us Try

Activity 1 : Remember It!

Instruction : Can you remember different activities in your community? Name
at least two activities associated with each structure in each box.

Education: Politics:
1. 1.
2. 2.

Community

Religious: Social:

1. 1.

2. 2.

Economic:
1.
2.

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 Let Us Do

Activity 2 : Pushing My Career!

Instructions : Remember when you were a kid and dreamed of one day becoming a
successful person. Since then, what has been your greatest ambition?
Answer the questions in the first column to complete the table in the
second column.

What do you hope to achieve in the

next 5-8 years?

What is your personal career choice?

What inspired you to this chosen

profession? Alternatively, who
influenced or motivated you to pursue
this career path?

How did your community help in your

decision to pursue a career?

What importance does understanding

your community dynamics and taking
part in community action have in your
future career?

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 Let Us Apply

Activity 3: My Adventure!
Instructions:
a. Take a mental tour through the neighborhood where you belong.
b. Close your eyes and envision yourself travelling back in time to events that
occurred in your community 5-10 years ago, or to a time when the Covid-
19 pandemic has not yet struck. Be calm and let your mind wander from
the historical events in your community to the current year.
c. Determine the changes that occurred in your neighborhood 5-10 years ago
on your mental tour.
d. Create a poster to compare and contrast your town back then and now.
e. Identify the major community dynamics and community activity that
resulted in changes in your community in your poster.

*Draw your poster in any available writing material, such as bond paper, cartolina, or
illustration board, that you have at home. If you don't have any of the materials, you
can draw it on the box below.

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 Rubric

Rubrics for scoring in Activity #3 My Adventure!

Criteria Excellent Very Good Good Need

4 3 2 Improvement
1
Quality Remarkably Good Poor The structure
constructed. It's construction. construction. is of poor
timely and Relevant and Not as quality.
appealing. useful. relevant as it Irrelevant and
used to be, unattractive.
and not as
appealing as it
used to be.
Innovativeness Remarkably Good Some Not creative
creative and innovation elements of
unique. creativity.

Inventiveness Remarkably The The Innovation is

inventive and presentation presentation either poor or
imaginative. The represented a required some non-existent.
presentation significant attention.
required a great amount of
deal of thought. thought.

TOTAL SCORE:_________________

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 References

● Navarro, M.M.(2020). Self-Learning Module, Community Engagement,

Solidarity and Citizenship – Community Dynamics and Community
Action. First Edition (2020)
• (PDF) .2 Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship (CSC)
Compendium of DLPs Class F | fredo custodio - Academia.edu

SSLM Development Team

Writer: Rigor V. Navales
Content Editor:
LR Evaluator: Emily Baculi
Illustrator:
Creative Arts Designer: Reggie D. Galindez
Education Program Supervisor:
Education Program Supervisor – Learning Resources: Sally A. Palomo
Curriculum Implementation Division Chief: Juliet F. Lastimosa
Asst. Schools Division Superintendent: Carlos G. Susarno, Ph. D.
Schools Division Superintendent: Romelito G. Flores, CESO V

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 Answer Key

Answers in Activity 1-3 will vary.

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