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LESSON 1: Importance of Understanding Community Dynamics and Community Action

1. It is important to study community dynamics and undertake community action with an understanding of the target community. This involves getting to know the community's situation, strengths, challenges, and social norms. 2. Understanding community dynamics provides essential information for project planning and implementation, including benchmark data, input from community members, and awareness of local groups to partner with. 3. A community is a social unit with commonalities among its members, though a community need not be defined by physical location and can exist among dispersed people with shared interests. Power dynamics and the actions of influential community members can significantly impact development initiatives.

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LESSON 1: Importance of Understanding Community Dynamics and Community Action

1. It is important to study community dynamics and undertake community action with an understanding of the target community. This involves getting to know the community's situation, strengths, challenges, and social norms. 2. Understanding community dynamics provides essential information for project planning and implementation, including benchmark data, input from community members, and awareness of local groups to partner with. 3. A community is a social unit with commonalities among its members, though a community need not be defined by physical location and can exist among dispersed people with shared interests. Power dynamics and the actions of influential community members can significantly impact development initiatives.

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LESSON 1: Importance of Understanding Community Dynamics

and Community Action

Part I. Learning Module Information

Explain the importance of studying community and community action in


relation to applied social sciences and the learner’s future career options
Content Standards
Recognize diversities in communities; and analyze functions of
communities in terms structures, dynamics and processes.

Develop a (1) community briefer which describes the situation of a chosen


Performance
community and may be a material for orientation and awareness building and (2)
Standards community case analysis and a proposal for community youth engagement

Most Essential
Learning explain the importance of studying community dynamics and community action
Competencies in relation to applied social sciences and the learners’ future career options
(MELC)
Duration Q1 Week 1

Part II: Learning Explorations

Community situations vary. Each community has its own context and given realities. Those
interested in working with a community must first have a clear picture and good grasp of the
entity they are trying to address. It is appreciating the features and elements of a community that
engagement processes and actions become relevant, acceptable and appropriate.

Gains in Understanding Community Dynamics


Provide benchmarking data It is important to establish the benchmark data before undertaking any
community action. The data illustrates the preliminary picture or image of the
community. It serves as the initial community situationer.
Provides preliminary project It is necessary to secure community information and feedback that are
planning information necessary for conceptualization to be able to produce a project design or
project plan.
Provides an idea of the An in depth understanding of the community strengths as well as its challenges
community strengths and creates guides community project planners to identify the project designs’
challenges facilitating and hindering factors.
Provides opportunity to seize The intensity or degree of people’s reactions or sensitivities is affected by
dominant rules and norms these rules and norms.
Provides an occasion to An understanding of the community members’ attitude and behavior would
solicit the attitude and provide people who are planning to start a community project a sense if your
behavior of a community project will be supported or rejected or can be negotiated.
Provides a way for a more If one is an outsider in a target community for project development, one
directed and well informed crucial activity s the dialogue with the community. Quality dialogue would
dialogue with the community depend on how well informed or how knowledgeable the outsiders are on the
community situation and issues.
Makes networking and By having an idea of the different advocacy and interest groups in the
partnership building more community, it easier for people from the schools and institutions or groups to
favorable partner with local networks or associations.
Gets project implementation Without a good grasp of a community, project development and
less complicated implementation become complicated and stressful. An understanding of the
community somehow gives an indication of what not to do or what to be more
concerned.

What is Community?

 It is a small or large social unit that has


something in common, such as norms,
religion, values, or identity.

What did you learn?

1. Why is it important to study community and how is it defined and viewed from various
approaches and perspective?
2. Why is it important to understand to get to know your target community?
Part III: Assessment Task

Activity #1: 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.

1. a. A sense of belongingness among individuals is developing when one


becomes a part of a community.
b. We can see, touch and directly experience a community.
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.

3. a. Community dynamics is the capacity to influence to bring about change.


b. The behavior of power actors can break or make community development
interventions.

4. a. Power actors are powerful producers of relationships that connect people to


people.
b. A community will only exist when all of its residents are born.

________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 #2: 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 way back 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 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 action that
brought changes in your community.

*Draw your poster in any available writing material at your home like bond paper, cartolina or
illustration board. If none of the materials are available, you may draw it on the box below.

Part IV: Internet Links

BOOKS

Abenir, M.A, et al., 2017 Community, Engagement, Solidarity, and Citizenship.


4/FSEDCCO 1 Bldg. 120 Thailand corner Legazpi Streets Legaspi Village, 1229
Makati City, Philippines: Diwa Learning Systems, Inc.

Danilo Lorenzo S.Delos Santos.Community Engagement,Solidarity and Citizenship.


856NicanorReyes,Sr.St.C.M Recto Avenue,ManilaPhilippines:Rex Book Store

Melegrito,ML. & Mendoza D., (2016). Zeal of Action: Community


,Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship, Quezon City. Phoenix
Publishing House Inc.
WEBSITES/ONLINE SOURCES

Lepazana, Ana Liza R., Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship


CSC_Compendium (May 24, 2017)
https://www.academia.edu/36784154/.2_Community_Engagement_Solidarity_and_C
itizenship_CSC_Compendium_of_DLPs_Class_F

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