BG 14036: Professional Ethics Seminar

MODULE 11
Social Engagement of the Youth
(Twelfth Session)
 MODULE 11
Service-Learning toward Social
Engagement of the Youth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=EBWuF9y8hko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=EBWuF9y8hko
 Contents
• Our AU Uniqueness & Identity
• Social Engagement
• Worldview Transformation
• Become High Social Consciousness
• Sharpen Your Social Consciousness
Service-Learning move toward Social
Engagement and
Become High Social Consciousness
person
 Why service-learning?

Two answers:

1. Because
it is our…….
AU Uniqueness and Identity
•An International Catholic University
(ICU) inculcating 3Es:
–Ethics
–English Proficiency
–Entrepreneurial Spirit
 What is our AU Uniqueness

•Catholic University: •International University:

–Catholic values –International program
–Catholic symbols –International scholars
–Catholic leader –International students
–Liturgical services –International recognition
–Learning environment
 What is our AU Identity?
It is 3Es
1. Ethics
1.1 Integrity
1.2 Social consciousness
1.3 Discipline
2. English Proficiency
3. Entrepreneurial Spirit
3.1 Leadership
3.2 Management knowledge
3.3 Labor Omnia Vincit
 Answer 2
It is a Purpose of this subject.
Three purposes of this subject are:
1. Moral Maturity
2. Good Characters & Integrity
3. Social Consciousness
Know how to care for others and the
environment while maintaining justice and
righteousness in society.
Service-Learning move toward Social
Engagement?

Why social engagement?

Especially youth social engagement
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWuF9y8hko
Social engagement can change your
worldview and increase your
consciousness

What is your worldview?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXnSE0uvwzM
 Worldview is:
•The fundamental cognitive orientation of an
individual or society encompassing the
entirety of the individual or society's
knowledge and point of view.
•It can include natural philosophy;
fundamental, existential, and normative
postulates; or themes, values, emotions, and
ethics. (Palmer, Gary B.,1996, Toward A Theory of Cultural Linguistics.
University of Texas Press. p. 114)
 Combination of Worldview
A worldview combines beliefs,
assumptions, attitudes, values, and
ideas to form a comprehensive model of
reality. It also encompass formulations
and interpretations of past, present, and
future.
 In our worldviews, we construct complex
conceptual frameworks to organize our beliefs
about who we are and about the world we live in.
 Unique Worldview
• Each of Us Conveys a Unique Worldview
• Our unique worldview is influenced by
our life experiences, culture, religion,
Socio-economic status, gender, biology,
environment, family, and friends among
other things.
 Worldviews Inform and Affect Our
Reality
• Worldviews does not only impact how we understand
and make sense of the world around us but also
influence how we express ourselves in the
world.
•Once we are aware that it is possible for multiple
worldviews to exist simultaneously, we will gain
a better understanding that the goal is not being
right, but rather becoming curious about other
perspectives and possibilities.
 Worldview Transformation
• When worldviews change, new possibilities
can emerge, even within the same set of
circumstances.

• Worldview transformation is a fundamental

shift in perspective that results in long-lasting
changes in people’s sense of self, perception
of relationship to the world around them, and
way of being (Schlitz, Vieten and Amorok, 2008).
 If our worldview was transformed

Our social consciousness also was

developed
How our social consciousness was
developed @ AU
INPUT PROCESS Outcome
3/1 First Semester - Prepare your
- -Increased your social
- Students project consciousness
studied - Present your
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- Chang your worldview
concept of project proposal
- Your good characters
-

service - - Project execution was developed

learning - Project
-

presentation
If our social consciousness was developed

Our social Responsibility also was

developed
 What is social consciousness?

• It is conscious awareness of being part of

interrelated community of others.

• What is the level of social consciousness?

It is explicit awareness a person has or aware
of being part of a larger whole.
The Development of Social Consciousness
(Or Levels of social consciousness)

It is a process involving increasing awareness of

social historical context, the ability to think
abstractly about time and place, and beyond the
immediate everyday condition to understand
individual experience as embedded in a broader
system of social relation.
 Five Nestle Levels of Social
Consciousness
“Worldview Transformation and the
Development of Social Consciousness”
Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Cassandra Vieten & Elizabeth M. Miller
Journal of Consciousness Studies 17(7-8), 2010, pp. 18-36
 Level I: Embedded
• Our consciousness is shaped without our
awareness by social, cultural, and biological
factors.
• It’s a kind of pre-social consciousness
• It is a baseline for our social consciousness
development.
• It is our cognitive and biological processes to
know what shapes our inner experiences.
 Level II: Self-Reflective

• People begin to aware on social situation

(environment).

• This awareness is accomplished through

personal reflection and contemplative practices.

• To broaden our awareness, advisors, scientists,

and spiritual teachers are needed to guide us.
 Level III: Engagement

• Not only aware of the social environment but

begin to mobilize our intention to contribute
to the greater good of the society.
• Our awareness moves us to actively engage in
the wellbeing of others and the world.
• we get better at seeing things from “me” to
“we.”
• Our brains develop through our engagement
to others because our brains are social organs.
 Level IV: Collaboration

• Gaining greater awareness of ourselves in

relation to the social world may lead us to
participate in co-creating solutions with
others.
• We begin to shape the our social
consciousness through collaborative
actions.
• Service learning projects enhance the
nature of collaborative social
consciousness.
 Level V: Resonant
At the last stage of social consciousness development

– We report a sense of essential interrelatedness

with others
– Mystical states of interconnectedness with
others
– It is an automatic social consciousness, no
requirement, no communication
 What is the level of your social
consciousness?
• After you finished your SL project, how your
social consciousness was developed?
People of high social consciousness
belong to level 4 - 5

• What level do you belong?

Answer:
 What people of high social
consciousness do?
• They do:
– Community Engagement
– Civic Engagement
– Social Engagement

• They go beyond their own egos.

 Social Engagement

It is the ability to work constructively

within and between social groups
to create more resilient and
sustainable communities.
 Community Engagement
• The process of working collaboratively with and
through groups of people affiliated by
geographic proximity, special interest, or
similar situations to address issues affecting
the well-being of those people.

• Example: At City of Canning Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5Jg99J6tZI (5.05)
 Civic Engagement
• It is a heightened sense of responsibility to one’s
communities.
• Civic engagement involves the following:
– Learning from others
– Appreciating human diversity and commonality;
– Working through controversy
– Participating actively in public problem solving
– Assuming leadership roles in organizations
– Developing sense of social responsibility
– Promoting social justice locally and globally.
 Group work on high social
consciousness
• The British Divers at the Centre of the Thai
Cave Rescue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdgBkko1js4
•The miraculous story of the Thai cave rescue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7uhm_OlXj4 (10.43)
Thai cave rescue: British diver lost rope guide for four
minutes during mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM_0oBhvyAc
 Group Work on Social Engagement

TEDTalks Maya Penn

13-year-old,
young entrepreneur,
cartoonist, designer
and activist

Maya Penn makes eco-friendly clothes

and accessories, which she sells on
a site she built — and gives away a percent of the profits.
http://www.ted.com/talks/maya_penn_meet_a_young_entrepreneur_cartoonist_designer_
activist
QR Code for Group Work Module 11
 Next Class: doing presentation
• To present with your friends in other sections,
please tell your project head and only the project
head can inform me. No on line request form.
• I expect big group (number) in doing each
presentation, not only 2 or 3.
• Each project is required to show PowerPoint and
Video Clips.
 Presentation (2)
• Each members are ready to be presenter and
answer the question because I will choose any
members.
• Only the score of the presenter will be
deducted in case of the one I choose can not
present or do it poorly.
 Presentation (3)
• Prepare your presentation. Please do not
keep reading note or PowerPoint while doing
presentation
 Dr. Weeraphan Phanwilai
• OFFICES:
– Floor 13, Cathedral of Learning (CL13),
Suvarnabhumi Campus, Assumption University.
• Tel: 02-723-2140
• E-mail: weeraphanphn@au.edu
 Extra Assignment
1. Explain the meaning of “Five Nestled Levels of Social
Consciousness.” What is the level of your social
consciousness? Explain the reason (200 words)
2. From VDO clip on “The British Divers at the Centre of the
Thai Cave Rescue” or “The miraculous story of the Thai
cave rescue” Are people who work in this clip considered
as a high social consciousness person? Why or why not?
Explain only two people (groups) (200 words)
3. Why the world needs you who is considered as a high
social consciousness person? (100 words)
Write your name, ID No. and section clearly