CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rolling over, crawling, walking, and talking are all considered milestones. The milestones are different for each age range. There is a normal range in which a child may reach each milestone. For example, walking may begin as early as 8 months in some children.

Detailed explanation-2: -Learning physical skills, ordinary games. Building wholesome attitudes towards oneself as a growing organism. Learning to get along with age-mates. Learning appropriate sex role, i.e., masculine or feminine role.

Detailed explanation-3: -Havighurst’s developmental task model includes six stages of life: infancy and early childhood from birth to age 5, middle childhood between ages 6 and 12, adolescence between ages 13 and 18, early adulthood between ages 19 and 30, middle adulthood from age 30 to age 60, and later maturity, which is after age 60.

Detailed explanation-4: -Milestones usually are categorized into five major areas: physical growth, cognitive development, emotional and social development, language development, and sensory and motor development.

Detailed explanation-5: -A developmental task is one that arises predictably and consistently at or about a certain period in the life of the individual (Havighurst, 1948 and 1953). He believed that learning is basic to life and that people continue to learn through out life.