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How can communities work together to create change?

I can explain what community cohesion is and why it is necessary for change.

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How can communities work together to create change?

I can explain what community cohesion is and why it is necessary for change.

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Key learning points

  1. Community cohesion is when communities work together to achieve shared goals or values.
  2. Community cohesion allows everyone, despite their differences, to have equal opportunities in life.
  3. To support community cohesion, neighbours need lots of different skills and qualities.
  4. If people in communities come together and work together, lasting change will occur as a result.

Keywords

  • Community - a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common

  • Cohesion - when parts stick together

  • Community cohesion - working together to achieve shared goals or values

Common misconception

Community cohesion comes easily to all communities.

Community cohesion takes work and effort to maintain relationships and keep everyone together working towards the same goal.


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Lesson video

6 Questions

Q1.
A community car share supports ...
objects
animals
Correct answer: the environment
community spaces
Q2.
Match the word with the correct definition.
Correct Answer:community,a group of people living in the same place

a group of people living in the same place

Correct Answer:connections,a relationship in which a person is linked

a relationship in which a person is linked

Correct Answer:change,to make something different

to make something different

Q3.
A community is a collection of ...
things
Correct answer: people
objects
food
Q4.
to a community makes you feel connected.
Correct Answer: belonging, membership, to belong
Q5.
Which word describes people who live next to each other?
Correct answer: neighbours
colleagues
schoolmates
employers
Q6.
Which word describes people working together to achieve a shared goal?
conflict
disagreement
competition
Correct answer: teamwork

6 Questions

Q1.
Differences in cohesive communities don't people.
Correct Answer: divide, separate
Q2.
What qualities should a neighbour show?
Correct answer: helpfulness
Correct answer: consideration
selfishness
Correct answer: friendliness
Q3.
Which group of local decision makers can support community cohesion projects?
Correct Answer: local council, the local council
Q4.
Match the word with the correct definition.
Correct Answer:community,a group of people from the same place or who have commonalities

a group of people from the same place or who have commonalities

Correct Answer:cohesion,a condition in which people are closely unified as one whole

a condition in which people are closely unified as one whole

Correct Answer:belonging,a sense of security and a feeling of being part of something

a sense of security and a feeling of being part of something

Correct Answer:neighbours,people who live in close proximity to you

people who live in close proximity to you

Q5.
What can negatively impact community cohesion?
Correct answer: making assumptions about each other
looking after each other
being kind to each other
helping each other
Q6.
Lasting change in communities can happen if this is present.
division
isolation
friction
Correct answer: cohesion
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