Community

Action
Community Action
- Refers to the collective efforts done by
people directed toward addressing social
problems in order to achieve social well-
being.
- It can take the form of community
engagement, solidarity, citizenship and
social change.
 Community Engagement
- Refers to the process of developing partnerships and sustaining
relationships with and through group of people affiliated by
geographic proximity or common interests for the purpose of
working for the common good and of addressing issues that affect
their well-being.
- This is necessary so that students can learn social responsibility
and develop their fondness towards community.
- Community Engagement have different kinds of forms, but the
most common are, service learning, community outreach, and
community engaged research.
• Service learning
- is a teaching methodology that employs community
service and reflection on service to teach community
engagement, develop greater opportunity and social
responsibility, and strengthen communities.
- Collaborative effort between community and students
so that a certain community issue or social problem can
be addressed .
- This allows students to develop leadership,
communication, cultural understanding and critical
thinking.
• Community outreach
- Refers to the voluntary services done by students, faculty,
school employee in response to social, economic, and political
needs of communities.
(1) Community service - voluntary services are a one-way
initiative from the one who devotes time and resources to
the communities.
- it does not require the establishment of long-term
relationship.
(2) Community development – would require fostering
partnerships and sustaining relationship with community.
Solidarity
- Refers to the firm and persevering determination to
commit oneself to the common good by mutually
supporting and sustaining movements for social
change and social justice.
- It often entails establishing ties with people who are
oppressed, marginalized and/or vulnerable such that
their cause will be supported by whatever possible
ethical means and that their rights would be
advocated.
Solidarity
• Rural poor (landless farmers, peasant, and fisher folk)
• Urban poor (contractual laborers and workers from informal
economy)
• Migrant workers and victims of human trafficking
• Poor children, youth, women, the elderly, and street families
• Indigenous people
• Persons with disabilities
• Prisoners and inmates
• Victims or survivors of disaster
Solidarity
- Its not only about verbal support or expressing
approval. It also requires collective action to
fight for the emancipation of the vulnerable,
oppressed, and /or marginalized sectors of
society.
•Health for All
•Education for All
•Good Governance for All
•Economic Justice for All
•Climate and Environmental
Justice for All
Citizenship

•Refers to the full membership in a

community in which one lives, works or was
born.
•Requires responsibilities to the nation-state
and at the same time the enjoyment of
rights as afforded by the law of the land.
• Citizenship education in the
Philippines
• In the Philippines, every Filipino is expected to be a
good citizen based on core Filipino values that are
considered integral components in nation building.
• Maka-Tao
• Maka-Diyos
• Maka-Bayan
• Maka-Kalikasan
Preamble of the 1987 Constitution
We the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of
Almighty God, in order to build a just humane society and
establish a Government that shall embody our ideals and
aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and
develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our
posterity the blessings of independence and democracy
under the rule of law, and a regime of truth, justice,
freedom, love, equality, and peace, do ordain and
promulgate this constitution
 1987 Constitution-Principles and
Policies
1. Sovereignty of the people
2. Renunciation of war as instrument of national policy
3. Enjoyment of the blessing of democracy by all people
4. Inviolable separation of Church and State
5. Protection of rights of workers and the promotion of their welfare
6. Separation of power among the executive, legislative and judicial
branches of government
7. Autonomy of local government units
8. Maintenance of honesty and integrity in public service and taking
positive and effective measures against graft and corruption
Bill of Rights
1. Due process of law and equal protection
2. Right against unreasonable search and seizure
3. Right to privacy
4. Freedom of speech, expression, and of the press
5. Freedom of religion
6. Liberty of travel
7. Right to inform on matters of public concern
8. Right to form unions and associations for purposes not contrary to
law
9. Right to a just compensation when private property is taken for
public use
• Citizenship Advancement
Training
- Aims to enhance the students’ social
responsibility and commitment to the
development of their communities and
development of their ability to uphold law and
order as they assume active participation in
community activities and assisting the members
of community in times of emergency.
• National Service Training
Program
- Program aimed at enhancing civic consciousness and
defense preparedness in the youth by developing the
ethics of services and patriotism.
- ROTC- a program institutionalize under RA No. 7077
designed to provide military training in tertiary level in
order to motivate, train, organize and mobilize them
for national defense preparedness.
Social Change

-Is universal, and inevitable.

-But what instigate social change
can be demographic, cultural,
political, or economic in nature.