Community Immersion Lecture Notes Flashcards

Flashcards about community immersion based on lecture notes.

What should students gather before community immersion?

Basic information about the community's culture, practices, and lifestyle.

What should students avoid when entering a community for immersion?

Regard themselves as superior to the members of the community.

What role should students avoid assuming in the community?

The role of 'savior' or someone who will solve all of the community’s problems.

What principle should students remember regarding development?

Development must be for the people and from the people.

What are the criteria for selecting a community immersion venue?

Inclusion in the deprived, depressed, and underprivileged category; willingness of local interest groups and leaders to cooperate; available resources; presence of development agencies; stability of peace and order; and accessibility.

What is 'ostentatious entry' in community immersion?

Formally introducing the worker through a village assembly, boosting the worker’s image and promising project output.

What is 'banking on the people’s weakness' in community immersion?

Gaining entry by focusing on a particular weakness or problem in a community and exploiting the members’ dependence on them for its solution.

What is 'academic entry' in community immersion?

Using communities as social laboratories where theories learned in the classroom are put to the test.

What is 'formal entry' in community immersion?

Gaining entry through a formal protocol or procedure, such as paying a courtesy call to community leaders first.

What is 'people-centered entry' in community immersion?

Local researchers from the community first gain entry into the area and undertake a preliminary social analysis of the community.

What is integration with the people?

A continuous process where students come into direct contact and become involved with the affairs of the community.

What is the 'border style' of integration?

Staying and living in the immersion area for a certain period to attain a deeper understanding of its people and way of life.

What is the 'elitist style' of integration?

Staying close to key informants and political players during the time in the community.

What are some basic tips on integration?

Living with the people, eating their food, doing their chores, learning their way of life, broadening social group affiliations, and realizing the hardships and problems that the community members are facing.

What is a community needs assessment?

A process in which the problems, issues, and concerns of the community are identified by using several tools.

List the information essential to community needs assessment.

Historical data, geographical data, political and legal data, demographic data, and economic data.

Name three data collection methods for community needs assessment.

Focus group discussion, community forum/assembly, and public records.

List the first five steps in conducting a need assessment.

Establish a working committee, list important aspects to be analyzed, identify the population to be surveyed, determine the information that is needed, and select a random sample of people to survey.

What are some roles of the community in a needs assessment?

Help identify interest groups, facilitate group discussions, select the sample to be surveyed, provide a pool of questions, and design a way of distributing and collecting survey questionnaires.

What should be prepared to be responsive to the needs of the community?

A program responsive to the needs of the community.

What is an important key in the Execution of Community Immersion?

Solicit contributions from the pre-planning and planning to the implementation and evaluation stages.