COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT,
SOLIDARITY AND
CITIZENSHIP
JASMIN V. CASAS
TEACHER I
Answer the following questions:
• Is the common façade familiar to you?
• Have you ever wandered around your own
community?
• Have you ever thought deeply and realized
what is really happening?
Community
• The word community was derived from the Latin
word communis, which means “common” or
“shared”.
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 Dynamics
• 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
• able the people to independently decide, plan-out
and take action to control the situation they have
in the community.
Non-geographical
Community
• It 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
Need in Studying this?
What is Community and Why is there a Need in Studying
this?
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. Nongeographical 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 vital in building
community. As people communicate and interact,
relationships foster. It develops pattern by which adopted in
the environment.
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 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.
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.
GROUP ACTIVITY
Directions: List activity for
each structure of community.
Learning Task 1: Let’s Get Going
Take a look at the following pictures and try to relate them to
you community.
Learning Task 1: Map Making
Directions: Make an illustrated map/diagram
that describes your local community. Draw
arrows, lines and symbols to show the
relationship between the people in your
community. Explain your work by answering the
questions that follow.
Processing Questions. Please answer in 3-5
sentences.
1. What does the activity say about your idea of a
community?
2. Based on the activity, who makes up your
community?
3. Do you see yourself as a part of the community?
How do you say so?
The images above show different realities in many
communities in the urban areas like Batangas City.
Are they common in your community too? What are
the reasons behind the differences in the activities
each individual play in the community? Every
community presents multi-faceted and very
complicated social realities but each community is
unique.
Modified True or False:
Directions: Write True if the statement is
correct and if false, write the correct word
or words to make the statement correct.
1. The word community was derived from the
Greek word communis, which means
“common” or “shared”.
2. One of the importance in studying the
community is that the people see an
opportunity to understand the policies within
and values cultural capital.
3. It is important to identify the different
needs of the community that should be
addressed.
4. Geographical communities are formed
based on needs, ideas, interests and identity,
practices and roles in social institutions.
5. Macro-level perspectives are focused on
pursuing common interests or goals like
forming a small organization to hold an
advocacy. Example is family.
6. Commitment is idea of unity or feeling of
agreement among individuals with common
interest.
7. People in a community share something in
common.
8. In community dynamics, changes in the
community can be brought about by social,
cultural and historical experiences.
9. Community Action is the process of
working collaboratively with and through
groups of people affiliated by geographic
proximity, special interest, or similar
situations.
10. It is important that engagement occurs so
that members will be able to involve
meaningfully in the activities that they have
created.
1. Latin
2. Social
3. True
4. Non-Geographical
5. Micro-level
6. Solidarity
7. True
8. Environmental
9. Engagement
10. True
With your situation as a senior high school student
and already positioning yourself for a college degree
or an employment. How do you see yourself after 10
years? Are you still in your present community? Or
are you an active contributor to the community
building process?
