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The course on Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship explores social science methods to address contemporary community challenges, emphasizing human rights, social justice, and participatory development. It aims to foster a sense of shared identity among students and their commitment to community action. Key concepts include the definitions of community, engagement, solidarity, and citizenship, highlighting the importance of collaborative efforts in improving community well-being.

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Week-1

The course on Community Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship explores social science methods to address contemporary community challenges, emphasizing human rights, social justice, and participatory development. It aims to foster a sense of shared identity among students and their commitment to community action. Key concepts include the definitions of community, engagement, solidarity, and citizenship, highlighting the importance of collaborative efforts in improving community well-being.

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Community

Engagement, Solidarity
and Citizenship
Prerequisite:
Disciplines and
Ideas in the Social
Sciences; Discipline
and Ideas in the
Applied Social
Sciences; &
Philippine Politics
and Governance
What are your expectations about
the subject?
SUBJECT
DESCRIPTION
This course focuses on the application of ideas and methods of
the social sciences to understand, investigate, and examine
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.
Process question:

As a discipline, why it
is important to study
Community
engagement solidarity
and citizenship?
WHAT IS A
COMMUNITY?
• a group of people living
in the same place or
having a particular
characteristic in
common.
• a feeling of fellowship
with others, as a result
of sharing common
attitudes, interests, and
goals.
DIFFERENCE
COMMUNITY SOCIETY
▪ A smaller group of people living together ▪ Refers to a larger more
in the same place or geographical area encompassing entity that often
having a particular characteristics in
involves multiple communities
common e.g. common cultural and
historical heritage and more localized in encompassing a broader
nature geographical, cultural and social
. scope
A social unit ( a group of living things) with honor and obey the pertinent laws and
commonality such as place, norms, religion, customs
values, identity.
Share common traits or interest
Example: specific farming community

Communities thrive on the likeness A society can function normally, even if the
specifically on its physical aspect people inhabiting have diverse interests.
COMMUNITY
WHAT IS ENGAGEMENT?

COMMITMENT An
OBLIGATION arrangement to COMPACT
PACT CONTRACT
do something
ASSURANCE OATH
BOND
or go MOTIVATION
somewhere
WHAT IS SOLIDARITY?
•unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially
among individuals with a common interest; mutual
support within a group.
• the position or status of being a citizen of
a particular country.
WHAT IS • the character of an individual viewed as
CITIZENSHIP? a member of society; behavior in terms of
the duties, obligations, and functions of
a citizen
What is ….
PICTURE
ANALYSIS:
BOARD WORK:
CONCEPT MAPPING
Base on the picture, what are the
words associated with community
engagement?
BOARD WORK:

COMMUNITY
•Community engagement is the process
of working collaborative 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.
HOMEWORK: SOCIAL MAPPING

Learners in a group will prepare a


social map featuring the different
networks of people and
resources that exist in their
communities

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