Quarter 4 Module 1 Lesson 1
Core Values of
Community Action
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Bernice A. Cayabyab
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Most Essential Learning Competency:
§ Explain the core values of community action: human rights, social
equity, gender equality, and participatory development
Tasks:
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Identify the
core values of
community
action.
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Understand
the core
values of
community
action,
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4
Analyze the
core values of
community
action;
Explain the
core values of
community
action.
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Preamble
of the
Philippine
Constitution
We need to build “a just and
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 country the
blessings of independence and
democracy under the rule of law
and a regime of truth, justice,
freedom, love, equality, and peace.
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Human Dignity
It is the supreme and
overarching value
that characterizes
education
The value of the
person is of infinite
value.
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Dimensions
of Man
1. Physical (made of matter).
• He must maintain health and harmony with nature.
2. Spiritual (capable of higher concerns
and of rising above the material).
• He must cultivate a global spirituality that essentially
connects him with God and the whole Earth community.
3. Intellectual (gifted with mind, the
faculty of knowing)
• He must constantly search for the truth. He seeks
knowledge that would transform society and the world.
At the same time he maintains a tolerant and
open disposition of the mind.
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Dimensions
of Man
4. Moral (endowed with the faculty of freely
choosing and loving)
• He must go out to others and in fact to all humanity in
love.
5. Social (living in a community)
• He must help build peace and justice in our society,
through the pursuit of family solidarity, as well as the
common good and well-being of the larger society.
He must also cultivate respect for human rights and
activate non-violence.
6. Economic (bound to concerns
of production and consumption)
• He must help achieve the goal of a more human and
sustainable development for the community.
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Dimensions
of Man
7. Political (relating to the
conduct of political affairs within
the nation and the world)
• He must cultivate his sense of
nationalism and globalism. For the
former, love of country and national
unity are foremost concerns while for
the latter, global solidarity, and peace
are the fundamental goals.
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The foregoing are values pertaining to the person as self
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A human being must achieve integral self-development by
cultivating his human faculties to the fullest possible.
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These values are actualized in society.
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Core
Values of
Community
Action
Human Rights
Social Equity
Gender
Equality
Participatory
Development
Empowerment
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Human
Rights
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Human rights are inherent to all human beings,
regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity,
language, religion, or any others status.
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Human rights include the right to life and liberty,
freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of
opinion and expression, the right to work and
education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to
these rights, without discrimination.
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Human
Rights
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Human rights are legal rights, safely enshrined in
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, various
human rights covenants, conventions, treaties, and
declarations, regional charters, national constitutions,
and laws.
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Human rights are rights which are inherent to protect
the dignity of a human being. They provide the
values, principles, and standards that are essential
to safeguard our dignity and natures as human
beings-hence, the right to be human
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Myths and
misconceptions
about Human
Rights
Human rights are Western and alien to many
cultures.
Economic, social, and cultural rights are not true
rights.
Human rights overemphasize the individual over the
community.
Human rights overemphasize rights over
responsibilities.
Human rights encourage adversarial and litigious
approaches over age one word and consensus.
Human rights favor the status quo over social
change.
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Fundamental
Principles of
Human
Rights
Universal
• Everyone should enjoy human rights without discrimination.
Unalienable
• They should not be taken away, except in specific situations
according to due process. For example the right to liberty may
be restricted if a person is found guilty of a crime by a court of
law.
Interdependent and Indivisible
• All human rights are indivisible, interrelated, and
interdependent.
• The improvement of one rights facilitates advancement of the
others.
• Likewise, the deprivation of one right adversely affects the
others.
• Certain rights cannot be sacrificed in favor of other rights
because taken together, these rights make human beings whole.
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Fundamental
Principles of
Human
Rights
Inviolable
• Human rights are irreducible elements of one’s humanity cannot
be abrogated or violated.
• Unless determined by law and solely for the purpose of securing the
recognition and respect for the rights of others and of meeting the
just requirements of the general welfare, morality, and public order in
a democratic society.
Entails rights and responsibilities
• States assume obligations and duties under international law
to respect, to protect, and to fulfill human rights.
• The obligation to respect means that States must refrain
from interfering with or curtailing the enjoyment of human right.
• The obligation to protect requires States to protect individuals and
groups against human rights abuses.
• The obligation to fulfill means that State must take positive action to
facilitate the enjoyment of basic human rights.
• At the individual level, while we are entitled our human rights, we
should also respect the human rights of others.
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Social Equity
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Equity is fairness vis-à-vis equality.
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Social equity is concerned with justice and fairness
of social policy. Since 1960s, the concept of social
equity has been used in a variety of institutional
contexts, including education and public
administration.
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The concept of social equity can be traced back to
the works of Aristotle and Plato. Equity in old
societies involves the role of public administrators,
who are responsible for ensuring that social services
are delivered equitably. This implies taking into
account historical and current inequalities among
groups. Fairness is dependent on this social and
historical context.
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Gender
Equality
Refers to the equal valuing of the roles of women
and men. It works to overcome the barriers of
stereotypes and prejudices because of equal
conditions for realizing their full human rights and
potential to contribute to national, political, economic,
social and cultural development. It is also known as
sexual equality or equality of the sexes, equal ease
of access to resources and opportunities regardless
of gender, including economic participation and
decision-making; state of valuing different behaviors,
aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.
Empowerment of women equitable access to
resources, power
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Participatory
Development
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Seeks to engage local populations in development projects.
Participatory development has taken a variety of forms since it
emerged in the 1970’s, when it was introduced as an important
part of the “basic needs approach” to development. Most
manifestations of public participation in development seek “to
give poor a part in initiatives designed for their” in the hopes
that development projects will be more sustainable and
successful if local populations are engaged in development
process.
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Participatory development has become an increasingly
accepted method of development practice and is employed by
a variety of organizations. It is often presented as an
alternative to mainstream “top-down” development. There is
some question about the proper definition of participatory
development as it varies depending on the perspective applied.
Two perspective that can define participatory development are
the “Social Movement Perspective” and the “Institutional
Perspective”.
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Empowerment
Is an enabling and interacting process and a
process of change. Requisites/elements: an
enabling environment human rights, expanded
choices, institutions, attitudes, values, civil society
organizations, subject individual or groups or
policies.
Week
1 Activity
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Go online and search: The core values of community action (human rights, social equity,
gender equality, and participatory development) and answer the following questions
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1. What were the core values interested in acquiring? Do you think that these core
values are still relevant in our time? Why?
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2. Do you think knowledge of core values of community action, human rights, social
equity, gender equality and participatory development (and how they should be
performed properly) should be part of our education? Why?
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3. What for you should one know to be considered an educated person?
10 points
Development of Ideas were clearly
Ideas
organized, on point
and supported with
valid reasons
Elaboration
Well written and fully
elaborated points with
clear and accurate
information
8 points
6 points
4 points
Ideas may be evident but
the organization of
thoughts need to be
strengthened
Well written and, most
points elaborated with clear
and detailed information
Ideas were present Ideas were poorly
but vague
developed and lack
organization
Awkward writing
Poor writing with little
style and points
to no specific details
are general. Errors
are also present