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    Robert Havighurst emphasized that learning continues throughout life and occurs in six stages. His developmental tasks theory outlines key milestones for different life stages from infancy to late maturity, including learning to walk and talk in early childhood, developing social skills and personal independence in middle childhood, and adjusting to retirement and reduced income in later maturity. While interpretations of Havighurst's theory have evolved over time, it remains influential in education for its robust view that development is continuous across the lifespan.

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    Robert Havighurst emphasized that learning continues throughout life and occurs in six stages. His developmental tasks theory outlines key milestones for different life stages from infancy to late maturity, including learning to walk and talk in early childhood, developing social skills and personal independence in middle childhood, and adjusting to retirement and reduced income in later maturity. While interpretations of Havighurst's theory have evolved over time, it remains influential in education for its robust view that development is continuous across the lifespan.

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    Robert Havighurst emphasized that learning continues throughout life and occurs in six stages. His developmental tasks theory outlines key milestones for different life stages from infancy to late maturity, including learning to walk and talk in early childhood, developing social skills and personal independence in middle childhood, and adjusting to retirement and reduced income in later maturity. While interpretations of Havighurst's theory have evolved over time, it remains influential in education for its robust view that development is continuous across the lifespan.

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    HAVIGHURST’S DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS.

    Robert Havighurst emphasized that learning is basic and that it continues throughout life span.
    Growth and Development occurs in six stages.
    Developmental Tasks of Infancy and Early Childhood: (0-5)
    1. Learning to walk.
    2. Learning to take solid foods
    3. Learning to talk
    4. Learning to control the elimination of body wastes
    5. Learning sex differences and sexual modesty
    6. Forming concepts and learning language to describe social and physical reality.
    7. Getting ready to read

    Middle Childhood: (6-12)


    1. Learning physical skills necessary for ordinary games.
    2. Building wholesome attitudes toward oneself as a growing organism
    3. Learning to get along with age-mates
    4. Learning an appropriate masculine or feminine social role
    5. Developing fundamental skills in reading, writing, and calculating
    6. Developing concepts necessary for everyday living.
    7. Developing conscience, morality, and a scale of values
    8. Achieving personal independence
    9. Developing attitudes toward social groups and institutions

    Developmental Tasks of Adolescence: (13-18)


    1. Achieving new and more mature relations with age-mates of both sexes
    2. Achieving a masculine or feminine social role
    3. Accepting one's physique and using the body effectively
    4. Achieving emotional independence of parents and other adults
    5. Preparing for marriage and family life Preparing for an economic career
    6. Acquiring a set of values and an ethical system as a guide to behavior; developing an
    ideology
    7. Desiring and achieving socially responsible behavior

    Developmental Tasks of Early Adulthood: (19-29)

    1. Selecting a mate
    2. Achieving a masculine or feminine social role
    3. Learning to live with a marriage partner
    4. Starting a family
    5. Rearing children
    6. Managing a home
    7. Getting started in an occupation
    8. Taking on civic responsibility
    9. Finding a congenial social group

    Developmental Tasks of Middle Adulthood (30-60)

    1. Achieving adult civic and social responsibility


    2. Establishing and maintaining an economic standard of living
    3. Assisting teenage children to become responsible and happy adults
    4. Developing adult leisure-time activities
    5. Relating oneself to one’s spouse as a person
    6. Accepting and adjusting to the physiologic changes or middle age
    7. Adjusting to aging parents.

    Developmental Tasks of Later Maturity (61 and over)

    1. Adjusting to decreasing physical strength and health


    2. Adjusting to retirement and reduced income
    3. Adjusting to death of a spouse
    4. Establishing an explicit affiliation with one’s age group
    5. Meeting social and civil obligations
    6. Establishing satisfactory physical living arrangement

    The assertions and principles presented by Havighurst are quite easily understandable and
    clear. The applications of Havighurst’s Developmental Tasks Theory extend to the field of
    education and have asserted influence over educators and psychologists worldwide. Although
    the theory has its roots in the 1930s, it continues to stimulate the insights of contemporary
    psychologists, prompting the publication of new manuscripts and books based on the concepts
    of the developmental task theory.

    Over the years, the reception and interpretation of Havighurst’s Developmental Tasks Theory
    have evolved with the upsurge of new findings. Nevertheless, this theory has remained robust in
    its testimony that development is continuous throughout the entire lifespan.

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