community engagement

1. Concepts and Perspectives of Community
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Different Forms of Community Engagement

11. Group Activity: Role Playing
You will be divided into two groups. Each group will make a role play about the
different forms of community engagement in educational settings. Preparation
time is 10 minutes and 5 minutes presentation.
Rubrics for Role Playing:

12. Community Action
- refers to collective efforts done by the people directed toward
addressing social problems (e.g. social inequalities, environmental
degradation, and poverty) in order to achieve social well-being. Community
action can take the form of community engagement and solidarity, which
bolster citizenship in the process.
- The following are emphasized and discussed substantively in this module:
(1)community engagement, (2) solidarity, (3) citizenship and (4 social
change.

13. Community engagement- refers to the process of developing
partnerships and sustaining relationships with and through
groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity or common
interest for the purpose of working for the common good and
of addressing issues that affect their well-being.
- Community engagement in educational settings can take
many forms but the most common are service learning,
community outreach, and community engaged research.

14. • Service learning- is a teaching methodology that employs
community service and reflection on service to teach community
engagement, develop greater community and social responsibility
and strengthen communities. Service learning projects are expected
to be a collaborative effort between the community and the
students so that a certain community issue or social problem can be
addressed.
- Studies have shown that students who have undergone service
learning are more likely to engage in activities that promote civic
engagement than those who did not.

15. Community outreach- refers to the voluntary services done by students,
faculty, school employees, or alumni in response to the social, economic,
and political needs of communities. This is done in order to improve the
community members’ quality of life. Voluntary service can take two
forms: (1) community service or (2) community development.
-in community service, voluntary services are one-way initiative from the
one who devotes time and resources to the communities.
- In community development, would require fostering partnerships and
sustaining relationships with communities. This allows a collective
participation for the enhancement of the community’s well-being.

16. • Community engaged research- is a collaborative process between the
faculty and /or the student researchers and the partner community
conducting research. Here, the communities are considered as co- leaders in
the design and conduct of the different phases of the research process. The
research process ranges from the identification of research agendas; design
and delivery of research tools; discussions on culturally appropriate
measures; ethical considerations in designing effective and well-received
recruitment strategies n gathering research participants; identification of
meaningful, creative, and broad-reaching avenues in disseminating the
products of research; and implementation of research reciprocity projects.

17. A. Identification:
Directions: Read each statement below carefully and fill in the blank(s) with the
correct answer. Answers may be more than one word.
____________ 1. It is a teaching methodology that employs
community service and reflection on service to
teach community engagement, develop greater
community and social responsibility and
strengthen communities.
____________ 2. It refers to the voluntary services done by
students, faculty, school employees, or alumni in
response to the social, economic, and political
needs of communities.

18. ____________ 3. In ___________________, voluntary services are a
one-way initiative from the one who devotes time
and resources to the communities and it is often a
one-time occurrence directed toward specific
nonprofit organizations or entities within a
community that has an identified need.
____________ 4. It requires fostering partnerships and sustaining
relationships with communities and it allows a
collective participation for the enhancement of
the community’s well-being.
____________ 5. It is a collaborative process between the faculty and/or student
researches and the partner community in conducting research. Here, the
communities are considered as co-leaders in the design and conduct of the
different phases of the research process.