CESC

Our Lady of the Pillar College – San Manuel, Inc.
District 3, San Manuel, Isabela, Philippines, 3317
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT,
SOLIDARITY & CITIZENSHIP
Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com
SUBJECT DESCRIPTION
This course focuses on the application of ideas and methods of the social sciences to
understand, investigate, and examine the challenges of contemporary community
life. It focuses on community-action initiatives such as community engagement,
solidarity, and citizenship as guided by the core values of human rights, social
justice, empowerment and advocacy, gender equality, and participatory
development. It aims at enhancing students’ sense of shared identity and willingness
to contribute to the pursuit of the common good of the community. It enables
students to integrate applied social sciences into community-action initiatives.

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND COMMUNITY ACTION

When one wants to study a community, he should have a
clear understanding of what is a community, community
dynamics, and community action. Communities are
generally defined by their common cultural heritage,
language, beliefs, and shared interests.


Community dynamics is the change and development
involved in a community that includes all forms of living
organisms; whereas, community action is putting
communities as the center of service development and
service delivery.


This initiative aims to cater to the primary needs of the
communities before implementing it. In such a way,
community action will help the community dynamics or the
degree of improvement of the community. It is important to
understand these two because they go hand in hand and are
proportionally related.


The dynamics of a community are determined by its nature
and structure and how it reacts to external or internal
forces. It is thus important to recognize the characteristics
and features of a community to understand why it acts and
reacts in a certain way. Here are the following features of
the community:


1. A community has a sociological construct or a set of
interactions or human behaviors that have meaning and
expectations between its members.


2. A community has fuzzy or imprecise boundaries and has
stayed that way to this day people interact not only with
fellows within their village but also outside of it.


3. A community can exist within a larger community
including districts, regions, ethnic groups, nations, and
other boundaries.


4. A community may move-move to find work for a living.


Moreover, a community, in order to have its dynamics at
play, needs power actors to bring about its needed change.
These power actors should have the capacity to influence the
decision-making and distribution processes to get things
done in a community.


This reality indicates that to work in a community or to
undertake community interventions is a challenging task.
Finally, development work requires understanding
community dynamics and processes.

CONTENT STANDARDS
The learners demonstrate an
understanding of the integration of social
science perspective and community action
initiatives

PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
The learners shall be able to synthesize the
integrative experience of implementing
community-action initiatives by applying
social sciences’ ideas and methods.

ACTIVITY 1: DEFINE ME
Direction: Tell what is being
described in each statement.

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS
1. It is the change and
development involved in a
community that includes all
forms of living organisms.
COMMUNITY ACTION
2. It helps in the dynamics or
the degree of improvement of a
community.
COMMUNITY
3. It is generally defined by its
common cultural heritage,
language, beliefs and shared
interests.
SOCIOLOGICAL CONSTRUCT
4. It is a feature of a community that
pertains to the set of interactions or
human behaviors that have meaning to
and expectations from its members.

COMMUNITY ACTION
5. It refers to the community as the
center of service development and
service delivery.

Activity 2. Let’s try Analogy

Direction: Read each statement carefully.
Write A if the first statement is True and the second
statement is False.
Write B if the first statement is False and the second
statement is True.
Write C if both statements are True, and
Write D if both statements are False.
A
1.
A. A sense of belongingness among individuals is developed
when one becomes a part of a community.
B. We can see, touch and directly experience a community.

C
2.
A. A community in some senses may not even have a
physical location but be demarcated by a group of people
with a common interest.
B. A community is not just about the people who are in it.

B
3.
A. Community dynamics is the capacity to influence that
bring about change.
B. The behavior of power actors can break or make
community development interventions.

D
4.
A. Power actors are powerful producers of relationships
that connect people to people.
B. A community will only exist when all its residents are
born.

C
5.
A. A community may have members who have temporarily
moved to other locations.
B. The degree of improvement of a community relies on
community dynamics.

Activity 3. My Journey
Directions:
1. Take a mental tour in the community where you belong.
2. Close your eyes and imagine that you are travelling back to the things that happened in your
community 5-10 years ago or in the years that we were not yet affected by the Covid-19
pandemic. Be quiet and let your mind travel from the previous happenings in your
community until you reach the present year.
3. In your mental tour, determine the changes that had happened in your community 5-10
years ago.
4. Make a comparison of your community then and now by presenting it through a poster.
5. In your poster, identify the important community dynamics and community actions that
brought changes in your community.263+

Activity 3. My Journey
Draw your poster in any available writing
materials you have at home like bond
paper, cartolina or illustration board.

Activity 4. Career Ko! Push ko!

Direction: Recall when you were still a kid and
dreamt of becoming a successful person someday.
What was your greatest ambition since then?
Accomplish the second column of the table by
answering the questions asked in the first column.

What do you want to accomplish 5-8 years from now?
What is your personal career choice?
What makes you choose this career? Or who influenced or

motivated you to choose this career?
How did community affect your career choice?
What is the importance of understanding your community dynamics
and community action for your future career?

Activity 5. Career Ko, Para sa Community Ko!

Direction: Make a mission statement on your
community engagement as future professionals.
Consider the guide questions below.

Activity 5. Career Ko, Para sa Community Ko!

1. What can you do to help your community at this time of
pandemic?
2. Are you willing to volunteer for
missions/organizations/foundations that are geared
towards helping others and your community? Why or
Why not?
3. How can you help in nation-building?
Understanding the
Different Perspective on
Community
1. Social Science
A community is a group of people whose
connections and relations are formed by
their shared history, experiences,
geographies, and identities.

1. Social Science
A German sociologist, Ferdinand Tonnies noted
two types of human associations: Gemeinschaft,
called “community’, and Gesellschaft,
known as “society” or “association.”

1. Social Science
It has been argued that the real community
manifests a combination of these two patterns of
behavior.

2. Institutional
Institutions are the core establishments that
bind people toward a specific advocacy or goal.

2. Institutional
There are five core institutions
that are pillars of our society.

2. Institutional
a. Government Institution
b. Economic Institution
c. Religious Institution
d. Educational Institution
e. Family Institution
3. Civil Society
It is generally defined as a wide array of non-
governmental organizations and volunteer groups
that are fighting for solutions to social issues that
continue to worsen the condition of the disadvantaged
sectors of society, especially the poor.

4. Local and Grassroots Level

It is also referred to as the Community-
Based Perspective, which sees the
community as a setting for intervention, a
target for change, a resource, and an agent.

Functions
of
Community
A community is a group of people in the

same geographic area, under common laws,
that has a sense of fellowship, belonging,
and obligation to the group.

1. Production, Distribution, Consumption

2. Socialization
3. Social Control
4. Social Participation
5. Mutual Support

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Our Lady of the Pillar College – San Manuel, Inc.

District 3, San Manuel, Isabela, Philippines, 3317

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND COMMUNITY ACTION

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Activity 2. Let’s try Analogy

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Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Activity 4. Career Ko! Push ko!

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

What do you want to accomplish 5-8 years from now?

What is your personal career choice?

What makes you choose this career? Or who influenced or

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Activity 5. Career Ko, Para sa Community Ko!

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Activity 5. Career Ko, Para sa Community Ko!

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

Our Lady of The Pillar College San Manuel, Inc. nuestrasenioradelpilar@gmail.com

4. Local and Grassroots Level

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A community is a group of people in the

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1. Production, Distribution, Consumption

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