Community Action

What is Community Action?

 refers to collective efforts done by people directed toward
addressing social problems.
 Can strengthen Citizenship of Individuals.
1. Community engagement
2. Solidarity
3. Citizenship
4. Social change
 Community Engagement
 Refers to the process of developing partnership and sustaining relationships with
people by common interest for the purpose of working for the common good.
Educational Context
 Refer to the initiatives and processes through which the educational
institution cater to issues relevant to community.
 This engagement also enrich the teaching experience of educational
institution.
1. Service Learning
2. Community outreach
3. Community Engaged research
 Service Learning
 Service learning projects are a collaborative
effort between community and students.
 Students that have undergone service
learning are more likely to engage in
activities that promote civic engagement.
 This students are most likely to have higher
levels of empathy and sympathy, lower level
of delinquency, more likely to be interested
in world events, and more likely to talk
about politics.
 Community Outreach
 Refers to the voluntary services done by students,
faculty, school, and alumni in response to social
problem in a community, this is usually done to
improve members quality of life.
1. Community Service – a one-way initiative from
the one who devotes time and resources to the
community
2. Community Development – require a relationship
with the community in order the outreach will
happen.
 Community Engaged Research
 A collaborative process
between faculty and student in
order to conduct research.
 this is geared toward the
strengthening the academic
discipline of the school and
finding solution to a specific
community problem.
 Levels and Modalities of community
Engagement
Level
Information – disseminating information
to members via social media or
traditional media.
Consultation – gets the stockholder
approval.
Involvement – enlisting volunteers,
stockholders.
Active participation – allows the
involvement of members in planning and
implementation.
Modality
Transactional – a one-way community
project that come from service provider
to the community.
Transitional – a two-way community
projects.
Transformational - a two-way community
projects that can leave everlasting effect
to the community
 Solidarity
 unity or agreement of feeling
or action, especially among
individuals with a common
interest; mutual support
within a group.
 Solidarity often entails with
people who are oppressed,
marginalized, or vulnerable.
 Sectors in our country that are
oppress
1. Rural Poor
2. Urban Poor
3. Migrant workers
4. Poor children, youth, women, elderly.
5. Person with disabilities
6. Prisoners and inmates
7. Victims of disasters
 Goals of Solidarity
 Health for All
 Education for all
 Good governance for all
 Economic Justice for all
 Climate and Environmental justice for all
 Health for All
 Health – a state of complete
physical, mental, and social well
being and not merely the absence
of disease or infirmity.
 Every human being is entitled to
the highest enjoyment of health
possible.
 Education for all
 bringing the benefits of education
to every citizen in society.
 Access to education is viewed as a
fundamental human right and not as
a privileged.
 Good governance for all
 This pertains to capacitating local
communities and institutions to
manage their own welfare, security,
political wellbeing, and cultural
preservation in order to bolster
citizenship.
 Economic Justice for all

 Enabling people, especially the

poor, the disadvantaged and
youth from growth processes to
contribute and benefit from
the growth of the economy.
 Climate and Environment Justice
 This refers to the fair
treatment and meaningful
involvement of all people in the
development, implementation,
and enforcement of
environmental laws.
 Goal is to focus on the
environment and find solution
to the problem.
 Citizenship

 Refers to full membership in a

community in which one lives,
works, or was born.
Dimension of Citizenship
 Legal - a citizen that enjoys civil, political and
social rights.
 Political – a citizen that actively participate in
society’s political institution and system.
 Identity – actively shapes his/her cultural identity.
These dimension fuel one
another, and usually attainable
by lifelong citizenship
education.
Citizenship Education In the
Philippines