COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, SOLIDARITY AND CITIZENSHIP

CONTENT C. CORE VALUES AND

A. CONCEPTS AND PRINCILES OF COMMUNITY-
PERSPECTIVES OF ACTION INITIATIVES
COMMUNITY 1. Human rights
1. Importance of understanding 2. Social justice
community dynamics and community 3. Empowerment & advocacy
action 4. Participatory development
2. Definitions of community 5. Gender equality
a. Social sciences perspective
b. Institutional perspective D. METHODOLOGIES AND
c. Civil society (e.g., people’s APPROACHES OF
organization, civic
organizations, social COMMUNITY ACTIONS AND
movements, LGBT, etc.) INVOLVEMENTS ACROSS
d. Local and grassroots levels DISCIPLINES
3. Elements
1. Partnership building with local groups
a. Structures (e.g., sociopolitical,
2. Community profiling
economics, and cultural, etc.
3. Needs assessment
b. Dynamics and processes (e.g.,
4. Working with a core group of leaders /
community power, leadership,
leadership development Participatory
relationship, social change)
action planning
4. Typologies (e,g., formal-informal, rural-
5. Resource mobilization
urban, local-global, sectors, social
6. Social action
spaces, etc.)
7. Evaluation

B. COMMUNITY ACTION E. COMMUNITY-ACTION

1. Overview
a. Community Engagement INITIATIVES: FIELD
b. Solidarity PRACTICUM
c. Citizenship 1. Partnership with local communities
2. Purposes of Community Action and organizations
a. Major issues affecting poor and 2. Preparation of community action
marginalized communities plan
b. The role of the youth in 3. Experiences in community
community action engagement, solidarity, and
3. Selected cases of community-action citizenship building
initiatives

LEA V. RAMONIDA
Subject Teacher
LEA V. RAMONIDA
Subject Teacher