Community Engagement, Citizenship,

and Solidarity

Q3-Module 6
Community
engagement is expressed
through community action,
that is, a collective action by a
community purposes of
arresting a crisis, addressing a
challenge, solving a problem, or
accomplishing a specific
outcome.
Some example of
community action:
• Consultation,
• education,
• public participation, and
• partnership building with
government agencies.
Community Engagement,
according to Taguibao
(2016p25), pertains to the
“process of working
collaboratively with and
through groups of people
affiliated by geographic
proximity, special interest, or
similar situations to address
issues affecting the well-being
of those people”.
Based from this definition, it denotes
that a concerted endeavor could
only be engaged into the following
conditions:
• first, when the participants live
close to each other, it means in an
activity, when the participants is
near to each other things would
be easier done with the
cooperation from the community
members.
• Second, special interest or
common interest, it means
that when the participants
think, feel and talk or share
interest in a specific subject, it
brings people together to
form a community.
• Lastly, when people are
brought into a similar
adverse situation and that in
their desire to resolve those
issues or problems, they were
motivated to actively
engage in relevant and
necessary activities. Based
from the given scenarios, we
can say that people aim for
productivity through
solidarity.
Forms of Community Engagement
1. Direct Service. From the word direct
service alone, we can conclude that this
form of community engagement provides
the needed services or products to the
people. Giving personal time and energy
to address immediate community needs.
These would come in the form of health
services, social services, services for the
elderly and handicapped.
2. Community Research.
Exploring a community to learn
about its assets and how it is
being affected by current social
problems. This form of
community engagement
provides knowledge that the
efforts can build upon.
3. Advocacy and Education. This type of
community engagement takes the form of
instructional service to the people. Using various
modes of persuasion (e.g. petitions, marches,
letter-writing to convince government or
corporate decision-makers to make choices that
will benefit the community. Raising public
awareness of social issues by giving speeches to
community groups, distributing written
materials to the general public, or providing
education activities in schools.
4. Capacity Building— refers to
working with the diverse constituencies of
a community and building on existing
assets to solve problems and make it a
better place. Creating a space for
everyone in the community to have a say
in what the community should be like
and how to get there.
5. Political Involvement—
means participating in a process of
government such as a campaigning
and voting. This include keeping
informed about issues in the local,
national, and global communities in
order to voted responsibly and
engaging in discourse and debate
about current social issues.
.
6. Socially Responsible and Personal
Professional Behavior— refers to
maintaining a sense of responsibility to the
welfare of others when making personal or
professional decisions. Using one’s career or
professional training to benefit to the
community. This category describes personal
lifestyle choices that reflect commitment to
one’s values; recycling, driving a hybrid car, or
bicycling to work, buying or not buying
certain products because of unjust corporate
policies or choosing to work for companies
with socially just priorities
7. Philanthropic Giving—
means donating funding or
needed items; organizing or
participating in fundraising
events.
8. Participations in Associations—
refers to participating in community
organizations that develop the social
networks that provide a foundation for
community- building efforts including
civic associations, sports leagues, church
choirs, and school boards.
9. Service Learning —is a
teaching methodology that
employs community service to
teach community engagement,
develop greater of community and
social responsibilities and strengthen
communities.
10. Outreach Communities—
voluntary services are one-way
initiative from the one who devotes
time and resources to the communities.

Example: public lectures, field trips for

students or adults, community-based
participatory research, community or
professional workshops.
11. Community Engaged Research – is
a collaborative process between resource
speakers, researchers and the partner
community in conducting research.

Examples: investigator-driven research,

community-placed research, community-
based research, community– based
participatory research, community-driven
research.
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