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2. • Social Sciences
• Understand challenges
• Investigate challenges
• Examine challenges
• Contemporary community life
• community-action initiatives (engagements, solidarity,citizenship)
• common good of the community
• integrate applied social sciences into community-based initiatives

6. CONCEPTS AND PERSPECTIVES OF
COMMUNITY
UNIT I

7. Communities are testament to the diversity of our
country and the dyanamism we embody as a
people under its banner.
By studying the community and its dynamics, we
unravel and appreciate our environment, our
institutions, and ourselves as citizens of this
country.

8. 1.
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5.
DESCRIBE THE COMMUNITY TO WHICH YOU
BELONG.

9. 1.
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5.
LIST PROBLEMSIN THE COMMUNITY THAT NEEDS
TO BE ADDRESSED.

10. WHAT IS YOUR IDEAL COMMUNITY?
DESCRIBE YOUR IDEAL
COMMUNITY?

11. “There is nothing permanent except change.”
-Heraclitus
LESSON 1 The Importance of Understanding
Community Dynamics and Community Actions

12. Learning Objective:To understand the role and importance
of the individual in a community.
Fundamental Queries:
Why is it important to study the community and its
dynamics?
How important is the study of community to our future as
an individual and as a collective?
How can critical knowledge about the community affect us
and others?

13. Learning Competencies:
Explain the importance id studying dynamics and
community action in realtion to applied social sciences
and the students' future career options.
Develop and affirm sense of shared identity and
willingness to contribute to the attainment of the common
good.

14. “ROLLER COASTER RIDE”
Wherein 3 ping-pong balls will be relayed in semicircular
improvised paper pipes.
The class will be grouped into 3 groups,mixed of ladies and
gents.
The firstg group to reach the further end will get a plus in
their quiz.
Let's start!

15. Questions:
1. How would you react if one of you fail to transfer the ping
pong ball successfully?
2. Were there any conflicts that emerged?
How was the group able to resolve the conflicts?

16. understand the importance of
community dynamics and
community action.

17. Determine the changes that happened in their
community by comparing 2015 and 2019
TABLE OF COMPARISON
2015 2019
Activity 1.2

18. Process Question/s:
1. What are the factors that brought
these changes?

19. • Community Dynamics-
• Community Actions-
• What are the importance of studying group dynamics and
actions?

20. • “What is your personal career choice?” “What makes you
choose this career?”

21. • “How does a change in your community affect your career
choice?”
• “What is the importance of understanding your community
dynamics and community action for your future career?”

22. Homework:
SOCIAL MAPPING:
Learners, in a group, will prepare a social map featuring the
different networks of people and resources that exist in their
communities.

27. “Together we stand, Divided
we fall.” John F. Kennedy
“As a body is one though it has many parts and all the
parts of the body”.
'Though many are one body, so also as Christ.”1
Corinthians 12:1
Each part of the body is unique and important.
Like us each of us is unique and our uniqueness
can help strengthen our community.