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SHSCommunity Engagement,Solidarity and CitizenshipQuarter1: Week 7 & 8- Module 4####### HUMSS- Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship####### Grade 12 Quarter 1: Week 7 and 8-Module 4####### First Edition, 2020####### Copyright © 2020####### La Union Schools Division####### Region I####...

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Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship Quarter1: Week 7 & 8- Module 4

HUMSS- Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship Grade 12 Quarter 1: Week 7 and 8-Module 4 First Edition, 2020 Copyright © 2020 La Union Schools Division Region I

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Development Team of the Module Author: Bernadette A. Aspiras, T1 and Mark Anthony B. Bucsit, T1 Editor: SDO La Union, Learning Resource Quality Assurance Team Illustrator: Ernesto F. Ramos, Jr. P- II Management Team: Atty. Donato D. Balderas, Jr. Schools Division Superintendent Vivian Luz S. Pagatpatan, Ph. D Assistant Schools Division Superintendent German E. Flora, Ph.D., CID Chief Virgilio C. Boado, Ph.D., EPS in Charge of LRMS Delia P. Hufalar, Ph.D., EPS in Charge of Mapeh Michael Jason D. Morales, PDO II Claire P. Toluyen, Librarian II

Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship Quarter1: Week 7 & 8- Module 4

Target In the previous learning material, you were intimated with the details of community action modalities. The information you have been provided with will help you understand the topic in this new learning By now, then, you have been overloaded with information about the integrated concepts of community. And it is expected that it would be easier now to work on the topics at hand. The first lesson in this learning material will intimate to you the different forms of community engagement that contribute to community development through solidarity. And, the second lesson will present to you the nature of national and global community, community development and the importance of solidarity in national and global community development. After the discussion of the topics, you are expected to develop the following: Learning Competency Week 7_Lesson 1: Explain forms of community engagement that contribute to community development through solidarity. HUMSS_CSC12-lld-g-9 Learning Objectives 1. Discuss the nature of community engagement, community development, solidarity. 2. Identify and discuss each of the different forms of community engagement. 3. Draft a simple action plan involving community engagement.

Learning Competency Week 8_Lesson 2: Recognize the Importance of Solidarity in Promoting National and Global Community Development HUMMS_CSC12-lld-g-10. Learning Objectives 1. Explain what national and global communities are. 2. Discuss the importance of solidarity in promoting national and global community development. 3. Prepare an individual plan through a narrative on how you can realize solidarity in the implementation of your community action program.

Jumpstart

Let us find out how well you remember what you have learned earlier and let us challenge your foresight about community engagement through the activity below. Activity 1. Choose Me Direction: Read and analyze the statements below. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. This is the idea of unity or feeling of agreement among individuals with a common interest. A. Citizenship

B. Solidarity

C. Unity

D. Cooperation

2. It is the process where members of a community act as collective to solve and address community problems and issues. A. Community Awareness

C. Community Action

B. Community Development

D. Community Plan

3. This is essential in addressing problems and ensuring the safety, protection, and well-being of community members to effect social change. A. Community Awareness

C. Community Action

B. Community Development

D. Community Plan

4. Individuals and groups of people collaboratively working based on common attributes, geographic proximity, or special interest. A. Community Awareness B. Community Development

C. Community Action D. Community Engagement

5. The process of community development has the following characteristics EXCEPT one A. It involves participation from a selected segment of a community. B. It uses systematic approach in addressing local concerns. C. It uses processes that are fixed and may be applied exclusively in the community itself. D. It encourages group building, leadership development and capacity building among community members. 6. Members are encouraged to take responsibilities and risks. A. Contribution

C. Capability

B. Continuity

D. Conscience

7. Members are guided by principles and ethics in practicing community engagement A. Contribution

C. Capability

B. Continuity

D. Conscience

8. Participants are not just observers but active players as well. A. Contribution

C. Capability

B. Continuity

D. Conscience

9. Members work interdependently toward their vision in an environment where there is sharing and trust. A. Collaboration

C. Contribution

B. Commitment

D. Conscience

10. Mutual benefit beyond self-interest. A. Collaboration

C. Contribution

B. Commitment

D. Conscience

You did well with that exercise. As I could see, there remains the data which was intimated to you in the previous lessons. Let us proceed with the discussion of the topic at hand. “Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” (Margaret Fuller)

Lesson Forms of community engagement that

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contribute to community development through solidarity

Discover

A. Community Engagement What is community engagement? What is its relevance to the community and to community action? Community engagement, according to Taguibao(2016 p25),

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.” Basing from this definition, it is imperative that a concerted endeavor could only be engaged into given the following conditions: first, when the participants live close to each other which presupposes that distance could hamper a coordinated activity and being near each other could make things easier done and cooperation from the community members is readily elicited; second, special interest or common interest, which means that when the participants think, feel and talk on the same wavelength about an issue, or an objective or a particular activity, then the more their enthusiasm is to be engaged in an endeavor intended to realize their ends; and, third, when people are brought into a similar adverse situation and that in their desire to resolve their issues or problems, they are motivated to actively engage in relevant and necessary activities. We could say that people aim for productivity and toil to the highest level given the three earlier mentioned scenarios. Community engagement could be achieved with the elements of trust, cooperation, functional networks or links and dependable partnerships. Trust above all must be innate in the hearts and minds of the members. When there are doubts towards other people, the rest of the elements will not obtain. The members of the community must put a hundred percent confidence in each other in terms of the other person’s ability, capacity, determination, will, dedication, perseverance, and the like. If they have

it otherwise, community engagement will not proceed. Why? Doubting other people will lead to a passive sense of cooperation. As the line of a song goes, “No man is an island, no man stands alone…..” An individual cannot toil productively by himself. One may work alone but, mind you, at the end of the day, he will still be calling on another person for whatever little help he could get to complete the task. This means that we need to establish connections, need to be linked with other people or even groups or organizations and they shall power up your activities. With the help of your coalitions, you shall develop more enthusiasm to engage in a collaborative endeavor. With regards its purpose, www.aifs.gov.au says that community engagement is a way of ensuring that community members have access to valued social settings and activities, feel that they are able to contribute meaningfully to those activities, and develop functional capabilities that enable them to participate fully. True to this, the identifying feature that community engagement transpired is when no member was left alone and left behind in the implementation of any community-based activity. Simply put, community engagement is aimed at mobilizing the members and enjoining them to pool their minds, skills and actions together for the accomplishment of community development goals. Another thing to remember about community engagement would be its core principles. There are several core principles of community engagement according to www.aese.psu.edu and they are as follows: 1. Careful planning and Preparation. People should not just plunge into anything without knowledge about the activity or without any tool to engage in it. An endeavor should not be instinctive, otherwise, you cannot be sure of what lies ahead. You have to lay down a plan and accompanying procedure as well for a clear roadmap of the

participants. Community engagement is not a spur-of-the-moment rather the product of a careful assessment of community situations or scenarios. 2. Inclusion and demographic diversity. Regardless of the location, color, beliefs, socio-economic status, ethnicity, gender (and any other indicator), of the community members, their voices, sentiments, ideas and thoughts must be

considered. Community engagement is not a selective endeavor. Streamlined or marginalized members of the community must not be left out. 3.

Collaboration and shared purpose.

Since community engagement involves

practically all the members of the group, then collaboration and cooperation are preconditioned principles. Institutions- government and nongovernment, based therein must work together with the community folks for better results. 4. Openness and learning. Allow the pooling of thoughts and sentiments to have a better assessment of the scenarios in the community, in preparation for a community engagement plan. The more suggestion, the more ideas to choose from. 5.

Transparency and Trust. The plan and the process to be undergone with must be an open book to the members of the community to avoid the stemming of doubts. If the community engagement entails logistics, there has to be a clear record of such. Should it involve partner agencies, their names and affiliations must be spelled out as well. No deceptions on the whereabouts of the plan as well as the activity.

6.

Impact and Action. There has to be an assurance of a positive development as an outcome of a concerted endeavor. The activity involved in the community engagement should be suggestive of potential change rather than become a liability to the community.

7. Sustained engagement and participatory culture. The planned activity must be geared towards honing the participative nature and sense of volunteerism in the members of the community. And, there has to be a scheme whereby ongoing and would-be activities for community engagement is supported and sustained. The last relevant and necessary detail which we must learn about community engagement pertains to its pillars. Pillars here would refer to the so-called building blocks or the indicators to support a productive and of community engagement. We could enumerate them as: 1. Build Capacity, where the people in the community are capacitated according to their own growth and development pace. This would result to a change-potential engagement.

2.

Reduce Barriers.

Because of the principles of inclusion, collaboration and

openness, whatever thin line dividing the community members is eradicated, an indication of a productive prospective community engagement. 3.

Communication. The community members learn the basics of listening and speaking as well. People learn not only to talk immensely but to become good listeners, too. Such skills are but necessary for better understanding amongst the members of the community. When all the people know is talk without listening to the others, then they will not come into terms with each other.

When a

communication vacuum occurs, engagement will not be possible at all. 4.

Action-oriented dialogue. The last pillar refers to the motivating indicators to enjoin the members participate actively in community engagement. Such comes in the form of rewards system to benefit the entirety of the community.

B. Solidarity One of the most significant component of community engagement is solidarity. And, what is solidarity? Taguibao (2016 p25) defined solidarity as “the idea of unity or feeling of agreement among individuals with a common interest.” It allows us to feel sentimentally united with the people in the community or with the people with whom we share some commonalities with like interest, circumstance or the like. It is the sense of togetherness among the members of a group. It could also refer to the “union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc.” (www.dictionary.com) This definition involves responsibility. In other words, unity does not just refer to physical togetherness or oneness rather it presupposes the responsible disposition of the people who endeavor in agreement with other people. Solidarity could also symbolize unity in diversity, where the different demographic circumstances of the members of a given community do not serve as hindrance to their sense of oneness. Taking solidarity into the actual scenario, we could say that the overflowing prayer brigade and sending of relief goods for the people of Cagayan and Isabela who were badly devastated by typhoon Ulysses, are deeds in solidarity with our fellow Filipinos. That despite the distance, we have shown that we are one with them in feeling their awe and pain. That is solidarity.

C. Community Development When community action is implemented and the people have expressed their solidarity as they toiled through a community engagement, change must have occurred therein. When change for the better has taken place- the people were empowered, issues and problems were resolved, then, community development has occurred. From this premise, what is community development then? Community development is “both a process and product.” (Taguibao, 2016). As a process, Taguibao (2016) says, “it requires an integrative approach to systematically assess the problem, capacitate the community and solve a problem.” As a product, Maser (1997) defines community development as the “capacity to work together to address their common interests.” As per www.scdc.org.uk, community development is a “process where people come together to take action on what’s important to them.” At its heart, community development is anchored from the belief that the community members have the right to have access to health, well-being, riches, justice and opportunity.

From this

qualification of the concept community development, and that of Taguibao, we can safely say that community development involves change which shall empower and capacitate the people. The depth of the change is immaterial because what matters is the difference that it shall bring to the people. Forms of Community Engagement Community engagement could come in different forms, in a variation of collaborative activities and spearheaded by different focal persons. Whatever form it is, community engagement will always be geared towards the mobilization of the people to become productive through concerted efforts and it will eradicate the concept of individualism and do away with self-vested interests. The image below will provide a clear picture of the types or forms of community engagement.

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As illustrated in the previous page, the types or forms of community engagement are anchored from Education, Research, Service and of course, the Community and they are as follows:

1. Community Building

Community Building as a form of community engagement is focused on enjoining the people to be highly mobilized to have an active participation in community activities. As per the core principle of inclusion and demographic diversity, no community s hall be left behind, thus, practically, everyone in the community must be involved in this type of community engagement. Everybody must be seen say, elsewhere in the area doing what everyone else is doing. If it is a seminar-workshop, let all sectors be represented; if it is a leadership training program, capacitate everyone; if it is a literacy (reading) program, let those concerned- young and old alike- be involved. One sector would be tasked on planning and preparation, another, to prepare for the venue and other pertinent materials or needed equipment, still another sector to be assigned for the training proper, and so on and so forth.

2. Community Education

This type of community engagement takes the form of instructional service to the people. As the word suggests, community education has the purpose of informing the community members of a little something about anything that is happening around them.

A classic example of which is the holding of health and wellness seminars,

specifically, a seminar-workshop about the aftermath of Covid19, or a continuous information-dissemination program about the different diseases emerging from time to time. Education at this context shall either be formal or informal. Formal education would be extended through the day-care center and a community elementary or high school. While informal education would be in through the classes conducted regarding food preservation, tailoring and dressmaking, hair science, woodcraft, horticulture, and the like

3. Community Organizing

Community Organizing, as a form of community engagement, involves projects which bring the people together with the purpose of finding a solution to whatever issues or problems are through a collective effort. An example would be the conduct of a training-workshop on food preservation.

Such a program would solve the

unemployment issue amongst community members, and if the material to be used is localized, then it would build local economic resilience.

4. Deliberative Dialogue

The holding of a community-wide meeting on a regular basis This activity becomes the venue where the people could air their sentiments and where the community focal persons could find substantial time to communicate with the members. This is the type of community engagement where ideas a developed, sentiments are made known and answered, and thoughts are concretized through a collaborative effort. It is in this type of community engagement where the people who could be experiencing adversities are made to feel that they are comforted through a dialogue with the other members of the community.

5. Direct Service

From the words direct service alone, we can conclude that this is the form of community engagement which will provide the needed services or products to the people. These would come in the form of health services (consultation, distribution of medicines or immunization), social services (like education, socialized housing, provision of relief goods during states of emergency, job training), services for the elderly and the handicapped

6. Economic Development

This is the type of community engagement which specificall...