Community Engagement

Solidarity and Citizenship

MODULE 3 – COMMUNITY ACTION
 LEARNING OBJECTIVES TO THIS MODULE;

• Recognize the value of undertaking community action modalities

• Show an appreciation to the vital role of the youth
• Community Action Community action is any activity that increases the
understanding, engagement and empowerment of communities in the
design and delivery of local services.
 Lesson 3
COMMUNITY ACTION
• 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 and sometimes
described as ‘social action' or ‘community engagement'.
• Activities performed by members of the initiative or group to bring a new or
modified program, policy, or practice in the community that related to the
initiative or group’s goals and objectives.
• Community Action Community action is any activity that increases the
understanding, engagement and empowerment of communities in the
design and delivery of local services.
 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
• Community engagement refers to the process of developing partnership (by
the word engagement meaning may interaction) and sustaining relationship
with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity or
common interests for the purpose of working for the common good by
addressing issues affecting their well-being.

• Community Engagement is a development of collaborative partnership

between education, business, social services, and government that
contribute to the academic mission of the University and directly benefit the
community.
 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN
EDUCATION SETTINGS

• SERVICE LEARNING – is a teacher methodology that employs community

service and reflection to teach community engagement develop greater
community and social responsibility.
• COMMUNITY OUTREACH – refers to voluntary service done by the
students, faculty, school, employees or alumni in response to the social,
economic and political needs of communities.
• COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT RESEARCH – is a collaborative between the
faculty and or a students researchers and the partner in conducting a
research.
 LEVELS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

• INFORMATION – is a one way relationship on disseminating information to

community members.
• CONSULTATION – involves obtaining stakeholders approval for a particular
initiative.
• INVOLVEMENT – is about enlisting community stakeholders as volunteers
and or consumers of an visualize service learning or community outreach
project.
• ACTIVE PARTICIPATION – allows the involvement of community members
in planning, implementation and overall assessment of developing
initiatives.
 DIFFERENT MODALITIES OF COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT

• TRANSACTIONAL – are one way community projects or activities that

come from the service providers to the community.
• TRANSISTIONAL – are two way community projects brought about by the
process of consultation and collaboration between the service provider and
the community.
• TRANSFORMATIONAL – are two way community projects that
characterized by active dialogue and critical reflectivity brought about by
the process of involvement and active participation between the external
agent and the community.
 SOLIDARITY
• Solidarity is about regarding our fellow human beings justly and respecting
who they are as a person. Based on the perspective that a person is a
relation being: a person is in connection with other people, with society, and
the environment. This means that a person has to relate responsibly and act
in solidarity with others and the whole of humanity.
• It is a Unity or Agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals
with a common interest; mutual support within a group.
 GOALS IN SOLIDARITY
• HEALTH FOR ALL – it pertains to the understanding that health which is state of complete
physically, mental, and social well being and every human being is entitled to enjoyment of
the highest possible standard of health and must treat equally.
• EDUCATION FOR ALL – this refers to bringing the benefits of education to every citizen in
society.
• GOOD GOVERNANCE FOR ALL – this pertains to capacitating local communities and
institutions to manage and regulate their own welfare.
• ECONOMIC JUSTICE FOR ALL – it pertains to enabling all people – especially the poor or in
a lower class socioeconomic status.
• CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR ALL – this refers to the fair treatment and
meaningful involvement of all people in the development, implementation and enforcement
of environmental laws, regulation and policies.
 CITIZENSHIP
• In its most basic sense of definition refers to full membership in a
community in which one lives, works or was born.
(3) Three Interrelated Dimensions of Citizenship
1. Legal Dimension – Refers to a person who enjoys civil (Freedom of speech
and right to own property) Political (Right to vote and hold public offices)
and social right to (Right to educate, health, and social security)
2. Political Dimension – Refers to a person who is a political agent and its
actively participating in a society’s political institution and system.
3. Identity Dimension – A citizen is considered a member of a political
community (Nation State) that actively shapes his or her cultural identity.
 CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN THE
PHILIPPINES
• In the Philippines, every Filipino is expected to be a good citizen based on
core Filipino values that are considered integral components in nation-
building. The core Filipino values can be derived from the PREAMBLE of
1987 Constitution which states that,
• We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in
order to build a just and humane society and establish a Government
that shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote the common
good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and
our posterity the blessings of independence and democracy under the
rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and
peace, do ordain and promulgate this Constitution.
 CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN THE
PHILIPPINES
• Citizenship in the country also takes the form of political dimension through the nationally
mandated service learning courses such as CITIZENSHIP ADVANCEMENT TRAINING (CAT)
in junior high school and NATIONAL SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM (NSTP) in college.
• CAT – aims to enhance the students’ social responsibility and commitment to the
development of their communities and develop their ability to uphold law and order as
they assume active participation in community activities.
• Military Orientation – provides learning opportunities for the students to gain
knowledge, skills and understanding of rights and duties of citizen and military
information focus on leadership, followership and personal discipline.
• Community Service – refers to any activity that helps achieve the general welfare
and betterment of life of the members of the community specially for those
devoted to improving the health, education, safety and moral citizenry.
• Public Safety and Law Enforcement Service – encompasses all programs and
activities which are contributory to the maintenance of peace and order and public
safety and compliance with law.
 CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN THE
PHILIPPINES

• Citizenship in the country also takes the form of political dimension through the nationally
mandated service learning courses such as CITIZENSHIP ADVANCEMENT TRAINING (CAT)
in junior high school and NATIONAL SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM (NSTP) in college.
• NSTP – is a program aimed at enhancing civic consciousness and defence
preparedness in the youth by developing the ethics of services and patriotism while
undergoing training in any of this three (3) program components.
• ROTC – is a program institutionalized under sections 38 and 39 of RA no. 7077 designed to
provide military training to tertiary level students in order to motivate, train, organize and
mobilize them for national defense preparedness.
• LTS – train students to become teachers of literacy and numeracy
 SOCIAL CHANGE
• Social change can be defined as the way in which human interactions,
relationships, behavior patterns, and cultural norms change over time.
These changes ultimately transform cultural and social institutions,
concepts, and rules, which will inevitably impact society for the long-haul.
These changes and transformations are not necessarily good or bad, but
they are profound.
• Social change refers to changes in the way society is organized, the beliefs,
and/or practices of the people who live in that society. Alterations in basic
structures of a social group or society. Change in the social institutions, the
rules of social behavior, value systems or the social relations a society or
community.
 THEORIES IN SOCIAL CHANGE
• Aside from understanding the factors that bring forth social change, it is
also important to know the theories proposed by social scientist to
explain social change. There are five main theories on social change.
➢EVOLUTIONARY – In this theory, communities are seen to go through
a series of linear stages from simple to complex, toward a higher and
more advanced stage of existence.
➢CYCLYCAL - This theory supposed that communities undergo a cycle
of birth, maturity, decline and death and they undergo stages of
idealistic and sensate culture.
➢FUNCTIONAL – This theory presents that communities always operate
on equilibrium where the social, cultural, political and economic
structures of the community produce order stability and productivity.
 THEORIES IN SOCIAL CHANGE

➢ CONFLICT – This theory explains that changes take place due to conflicts
that occur in societies. Conflict arises because of unequal relations among
people on the basis of class, gender, age, race and ethnicity.

➢SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM – This theory argues that people in society

continuously interact with one another and its through this interaction
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LESSON 3 – COMMUNITY ACTION