Community Engagement
Solidarity and Citizenship 12
Quarter 1
Module 13
1. Community Action
2. Engagement
3. Solidarity
4. Citizenship
Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship
Quarter 1 – Module 13: Community Action / Engagement / Solidarity /
Citizenship
First Edition, 2020
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Community Engagement
Solidarity and Citizenship 12
Quarter 1
Module 13
1. Community Action
2. Engagement
3. Solidarity
4. Citizenship
Introductory Message
For the Facilitator:
Welcome to the Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship Self-
Learning Module on Community Action, Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship!
This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and
reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.
This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.
In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:
Notes to the Teacher
This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.
As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
For the Learner:
Welcome to the Community Engagement Solidarity and Citizenship Self-
Learning Module on Community Action, Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship!
This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.
This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:
Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills
that you will learn after completing the module.
Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson
at hand.
Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts
and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.
Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.
Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.
Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and
application of the lesson.
Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the
lesson.
Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
EXPECTATIONS
1. Define the different concepts in the community action process.
2. Distinguish engagement, solidarity and citizenship from one another.
3. Determine their level of participation in the community building processes.
PRETEST
Multiple Choice: Pick from the choices given below your choice answer to each of
the items. You can ask the assistance of any of your parents/guardian to help you
assess you performance. Ok let’s get it on!
Answer choices:
A. Engagement B. Solidarity C. Citizenship D. Social Action
1. Miles has been actively supporting her group’s efforts for gender equality
awareness within a system dominated by conservative views. _____
2. Organizing is fundamental in the community development process. _____
3. As a resident of their barangay, Jenorie is left with no other choice but to observe
all the rules enforced by the government. _____
4. Red is not a sport enthusiast but he supported the efforts of the Sangguniang
Kabataan in promoting sports for youth development. _____
5. Manny joined his friends in the clean-up drive in the community just to spend
his free time productively. _____
RECAP
I hope you can still recall the discussions in the previous module. In
connection to that let us have a short review of the lessons from the last module:
We categorized communities according to the nature of their existence. Can
you name one type of community? How do you categorized that community? There
are also the formal and informal communities. Can you distinguish one form the
other?
Thank you for spending few minutes trying to figure out those questions. At
this point you should be all set for the discussions on the topics in this module.
LESSON
Understanding the Concepts in Community Action
As explained in Module 1 community action includes various activities aimed
at empowering people towards becoming active contributors to the community
building process. The term empowering people means that the initiators of any
community action is expected to guide the community into becoming independent
and self-subsisting unit. As the saying goes, “helping is not just about giving food to
the hungry but by teaching the people how to provide food for themselves.”
People from the Philippine
Eagle Foundation are
empowering the youths into
becoming partners in the
conservation of one of the
country’s important national
symbol. Photo credits to the
Philippine Eagle Foundation
The effectiveness of a community action initiative can be measured on the
transformation of the community into one cohesive and stable unit with able leaders
leading the way towards the attainment of the goals set by the community people
themselves. The worst mistake a community action enabler can do is to make the
people mere recipient of a community building activities. In that way, it will be
difficult for the action initiators to leave the project to implement similar activities in
another community. The entire project will still be a failure in the end if there is no
leader from the community to take over the helm.
A community organizer leading
the way in the crafting of a plan
that will help the people build a
dynamic, humane and
progressive community. Photo
source: iwgia.org
Basically there are three types of involvement by individuals in the community
building process. These three are the engagement, solidarity and citizenship. An
individual’s involvement in
the community building
process depends on their
level of consciousness to
the concept of membership
in the community system.
Students sharing their
precious time with kids at
the Pasig mega market to
impart knowledge on more
productive activities.
1. Engagement. The boxes inside the
arrow provide an idea on what
engagement is all about in as far as
community development process is
concerned. To be engaged in any
community building activities, an
individual has to be where the action is.
If the activity is for the environment they
should be planting trees or cleaning the
coastal areas among others. The role in
the project must be significant in the sense that it has direct contribution to the
attainment of the advocacy’s goals. And of course the individual must have complete
understanding of the expected results of the action being undertaken.
Nursing students engaging
in the medical mission to be
able to serve the community
and hone their skills at the
same time.
2. Solidarity. For any community action initiatives to succeed everyone must be
willing to be a part of the group or its established goals. That kind of mentality will
drive everyone to move towards a common direction. Their commitment to the
community should bind all their efforts into single solid action. There should be no
room for a “just see you in the finish
line,” mentality. Also part of being in
solidarity with the group is the
willingness to share accountability for
any shortcomings that may be
encountered along the way. If everyone
is willing to share responsibility for any
miscalculations corrective measures
may be easily undertaken through
collective efforts.
Youth volunteers
participated in the coastal
clean-up drive in solidarity
with the efforts to keep the
island of Boracay a prime
tourist destination. Photo
credits to philstar.com
3. Citizenship. It refers to one’s formal
membership in a political organization
such as country, province, city or
municipality and the barangay. Since it
is a formal membership it entails certain
duties some of which are clearly defined
in the political-legal system. One
example is the freedom of speech that
while a citizen is afforded with such right
they are also obligated to reciprocate it
by respecting also the right of others to freely express their opinion.
Efren Peñaflorida’s Kariton
Klasrum is a good example
of how an ordinary citizen
can become a hero to the
poor. Photo credits to
cnn.com
Engagement, solidarity and citizenship are three movers of human resources
in the community development process. Being a member of the community an
individual has to fulfill their social responsibility by taking a share of the tasks in the
community building process. After all everyone stands to benefit from a well
progressive and peaceful community. As shown in the illustration those three are
essential factors in helping community people locate their place in the process as
functional members of the community.
ACTIVITIES
What it is, how it is? The first column provides the three movers of social
action. In the second column you are going to give words that you think will best
characterized those three while in the third column you are being asked to identify
any actions that you can do in your community that will exemplify them. See if you
can convince your parents/guardian or teacher to give you at least positive review in
this activity.
Movers of social action What it is? How it is?
Engagement
Solidarity
Citizenship
After completing this activity try reflecting on how deep is your participation
in the community development process based on you answers in column three.
WRAP-UP
In the first part of this module we discuss about the community action. We
attempted to connect the concept of community action to the community
development process. What insights did you develop in this part of the discussion?
Then we proceeded to the three movers of the social actions namely the
engagement, solidarity and citizenship. How will you differentiate each from the
other? These three movers of social actions can help us determine our level of
understanding of our part as member of the community and as citizen of our city
and country.
VALUING
We are not only members but also citizens in a formal (political) community.
As such we have duties and responsibilities to perform. Try recalling the words in
the “Panatang Makabayan” and identify our duties and responsibilities that were
mentioned there.
Come to think of it, how well do you take the words in the “Panatang
Makabayan?” Do they really mean anything to you or you just recite them during the
flag ceremony. Since we are living in a democratic society we have the freedom to
choose how we can have involvement in our community. But ignoring our social
responsibility as citizen is never a part of that choice.
POSTTEST
Multiple Choice: Pick from the choices given below your choice answer to each of
the items. You can ask the assistance of any of your parents/guardian to help you
assess you performance. Ok let’s get it on!
Answer choices:
A. Engagement B. Solidarity C. Citizenship D. Social Action
1. As a resident of their barangay, Jenorie is left with no choice but to observe all
the rules enforced by the government. _____
2. Red is not a sport enthusiast but he supported the efforts of the Sangguniang
Kabataan in promoting sports for youth development. _____
3. Manny joined his friends in the clean-up drive in the community just to spend
his free time productively. _____
4. Miles has been actively supporting her group’s efforts for gender equality
awareness within a system dominated by conservative views. _____
5. Organizing is fundamental in the community development process. _____
KEY TO CORRECTION
5. D 4. B 3. A 2. B 1. C Posttest:
5. A 4. B 3. C 2. D 1. B Pretest:
ANSWERS:
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