The Concept of Developmental-Tasks and its Significance for Education and Social Work
The term "developmental-task" was introduced by Robert Havighurst in the 1950's. According to R. Harvighurst, the term refers to tasks which arise in a social context during an individual lifetime. Since the 1950's the concept of developmental-tasks has become an important th...
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| Language: | English |
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Social Work & Society
2004-01-01
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| Series: | Social Work and Society |
| Online Access: | http://132.195.130.183/index.php/sws/article/view/1162 |
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| Summary: | The term "developmental-task" was introduced by Robert Havighurst in the 1950's. According to R. Harvighurst, the term refers to tasks which arise in a social context during an individual lifetime. Since the 1950's the concept of developmental-tasks has become an important theoretical approach in educational science and in theories of growth and development - but not in social work and social pedagogy. In the following article I aim to show that this approach is very important to theory and practice of social pedagogy and social work. |
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| ISSN: | 1613-8953 |