The document discusses the significance of community dynamics and community action in understanding community life and fostering engagement among members. It defines communities as social units formed by meaningful relationships and outlines the importance of community action for building capacity, resilience, prevention, and wealth creation. The module includes specific objectives for learners to assess their understanding of community concepts through pre-tests and reflective activities.

1. Community Engagement,
Solidarity and Citizenship
Module 1: Importance of Community Dynamics & Community Action

2. Most Essential Learning Competency
Community has always been a prolific topic and laden with
various definitions. As a member of the community, you are
expected to:
- explain the importance of studying community dynamics and
community action in relation to applied social sciences and
the learners’ future career options (HUMSS_CSC12-IIIa-c-1)

3. Specific Objectives
1. Cite the importance of community dynamic.
2. Share significant community-based activities
describing the community life.
3. Identify the importance of studying the
community action.
4. Express ideas about the importance of studying
community action.

4. To find out what
you already
know about the
topic to be
discussed in this
module, take
the Pre-test.
Write your
answer in your
notebook
Write TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if it is wrong.
1. Community is synonymous
with belongingness,
togetherness, camaraderie and
similar state of peaceful social
relations because each member
gets along well with the other
members of the community.

5. To find out what
you already
know about the
topic to be
discussed in this
module, take
the Pre-test.
Write your
answer in your
notebook
Write TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if it is wrong.
2. External connections of the
community that helps it in achieving
its goals are also called linkages.
3. Community is a set of meaningful
social connections in a group of any
size where members have
something in common.

6. To find out what
you already
know about the
topic to be
discussed in this
module, take
the Pre-test.
Write your
answer in your
notebook
Write TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if it is wrong.
4. Members of a community do not
know and interact with each other.
5. A community is social.
6. A community establishes
traditions and patterns of behavior.
7. A community operates without
certain boundaries.

7. To find out what
you already
know about the
topic to be
discussed in this
module, take
the Pre-test.
Write your
answer in your
notebook
Write TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if it is wrong.
8. A community is a social unit (a
group of living things) with
commonality such as norms,
religion, values, customs, or identity

8. To find out what
you already
know about the
topic to be
discussed in this
module, take
the Pre-test.
Write your
answer in your
notebook
Write TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if it is wrong.
9. Community dynamics, also
known as biological succession, is
the process of change and
development in communities of all
living organisms including plants,
microorganisms, and small and
large creatures of every sort.

9. To find out what
you already
know about the
topic to be
discussed in this
module, take
the Pre-test.
Write your
answer in your
notebook
Write TRUE if the statement is correct and
FALSE if it is wrong.
10. This statement is false for
community dynamics or biological
succession, “A species will move
into an environment when the
conditions are suitable for its
establishment, and will move out of
that environment when the
conditions become unsuitable for its
reproduction.”

10. Write a paragraph about the photo

11. Definition of Community
● Was derived from the Latin word
“communis” which means common or
shared.
● Thus, the general understanding of the word
community is that it is a social unit compose
of people who have something in common.

12. Definition of Community
● A community may be defined as a set of
meaningful social connections in a group of
any size where members have something in
common. It is a web of some kind of
relationships.
● A community operates within certain
boundaries that are agreed among members
either tacitly or explicitly.

13. Definition of Community
● Members of a community share some kind
of a bond such as location, interests,
background or identity, situations or
experiences.
● Each community establishes traditions and
patterns of behavior which may be implied
or written as rules

14. A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as norms, religion, values, customs,
or identity.

15. Communities may be formed in 2 ways:

16. Communities may be formed in 2 ways:

17. Communities may be formed in 2 ways:

18. Communities may be formed in 2 ways:

19. Communities may be formed in 2 ways:

20. COMMUNITY DYNAMICS AND
COMMUNITY ACTION

21. Community Dynamics
● Community dynamics is also known as
biological succession.
● It is the process of change and development
in communities of all living organisms
including plants, microorganisms, and small
and large creatures of every sort.

22. Community Dynamics
● With community dynamics as a scientific idea, there
is a fundamental rule of succession that drives all
thinking and decision-making when dealing with the
natural environment:
● A species will move into an environment
when the conditions are suitable for its
establishment, and will move out of that
environment when the conditions become
unsuitable for its reproduction.”

23. Community Dynamics
● The same with humans in a society: when
people find themselves in a place that is
suitable for them to achieve their life goals,
they stay; but, when the locality they are in
does not provide avenues for personal
and/or professional growth, they relocate or
migrate.

24. Community Action
● Community action is
any activity that
increases the
understanding,
engagement and
empowerment of
communities in the
design and delivery of
local services.

25. Community Action
● Community action includes a broad range of
activities and is sometimes described as social
action' or community engagement’.
● These activities can vary in their objective, the
role the community plays, the types of activities
involved, their scale and their integration within
the council.

26. Importance of Community Action
● Community action is about putting communities
at the heart of their own local services. Involving
communities in the design and delivery of
services can help to achieve a number of
objectives, including:

28. 1. Building community and social
capacity
● helping the community to share knowledge,
skills and ideas.
● This means giving people the means to learn
from one another by sharing skills, knowledge
and ideas.
● As community members learn, they become
more empowered and are more confident to
participate in community activities.

29. 2. Community resilience
● helping the community to support itself.
● As community members, the inhabitants can
help the LGU in its desire for resilience by
supporting the program through various
means.

30. 3. Prevention
● a focus on early access to services or support,
engagement in design, cross-sector
collaboration and partnerships.
● A community is not self-sufficient. Just as no
man is an island, a community needs to link
with partners to be effective in planning and
designing programs and projects, in engaging
clientele and in the delivery of services.

31. 4. Maintaining and creating wealth
● for example helping people into employment or
developing community enterprises.
● Maintaining and creating wealth could differ
from community to community. Some
communities introduce livelihood programs to
their inhabitants. These livelihood programs
range from cottage industries (i.e. fan making,
dressmaking, curtain sewing, etc.) to small scale
businesses.

32. Lesson Summary
 A community may be defined as a set of meaningful social
connections in a group of any size where members have
something in common
 Community dynamics, also known as biological succession, is the
process of change and development in communities of all living
organisms including plants, microorganisms, and small and large
creatures of every sort.Community action has four main
objectives:
o Building community and social capacity
o Community resilience
o Prevention
o Maintaining and creating wealth

33. Independent Activity 1
Task: Think of an activity that you have done as a member of the
family (i.e. cooking, gathering firewood, fetching water, washing the
dishes,
etc.) and answer the following questions:
1. Who taught you to do the activity? (i.e. Who taught you to cook?)
2. Has the activity helped your family support itself and its members?
In what ways?
3. In doing your tasks, was it necessary to ask for help/ assistance at
times? Why? Explain your answer.
4. Do you feel a certain amount of satisfaction knowing that you have
contributed to your family by doing your task? Explain.