COMMUNITY ENGAGMENT, SOLIDARITY, AND CITIZENSHIP
LESSON 1: Importance of Studying Community Dynamics and
Community Action in Relation to Applied Social Sciences for
Learners’ Future Career Options
What’s In
In your notebook/paper, draw and describe a
community where you belong.
Rubrics:
Utilization of space 10 points
Composition 10 points
Color scheme 5 points
Imagination 10 pints
Detail/explanation 10 points
Overall impact 5 points
Total 50 points
What’s New
In your notebook/paper, answer the following:
1. In three sentences, describe an ideal community?
2. In your point of view, what makes a successful and progressive
community?
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What is It
Community is a social group of any size whose members reside in a
specific locality, share government, and often have a common
cultural and historical heritage.
Community is all the people living in an area or a group or groups of
people who share common interests.
Community is a locality inhabited by such a group.
Community is a social, religious, occupational, or other group
sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or
perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society
within which it exists.
Community is a group of people living in the same place or having
particular characteristics in common.
Community action is any activity that increases the understanding,
engagement and empowerment of communities in the design and
delivery of local services.
Community action 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:
1. Building community and social capacity – helping the community
to share knowledge, skills and ideas.
2. Community resilience – helping the community to support itself.
3. Prevention – a focus on early access to services or support,
engagement in design, cross-sector collaboration and partnerships.
4. Maintaining and creating wealth – for example helping people into
employment or developing community enterprises.
Role of the Community
The role of the community includes the following: community
consultation, joint planning, joint design, joint delivery, and community-
led activities.
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Community dynamics applies to any changes taking place within
a group. Such improvements can be made by collective action.
Community shifts arise when decision makers or members take
action.
Such activities relate to the creation or advancement of goods,
services and policies that specifically support a particular
community. Factors such as the needs of the society, the interests
of the citizens and the availability of resources have been addressed
in the process. Community dynamics and collective intervention fall
under the umbrella of economics because they are highly
dependent on human resources [the labor force]. Those are
mentioned, but it is fair to suggest that economics plays a critical
role in the understanding of community dynamics through collective
action.
What’s More
Determine and list down community developments/innovations that
happened in your particular community in terms of education, population,
health care, employment, peace and order, and infrastructure projects.
Write your answer in your notebook/paper.
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Care Order developme
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What I Have
I have learned that Learned .
Express yourI have realized that on the lesson by completing the following
understanding . lines in your
notebook/paper.
I will apply .
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What I Can Do
Task 1: Accomplish this task in your notebook/paper.
a.) In relation to our topic: community dynamics and community action,
in 10 sentences, express your stand about this quote by Heraclitus:
“There is nothing permanent except change”
Task 2:
Describe each picture below. Use an adjective that will best fit with the
content of the given images. Write your answer in your notebook.
(Library, 2022)
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