This textbook chooses the concept of developmental tasks as a foundation to illustrate and clearly convey how developmental and learning processes orient and support pedagogical thinking and action. Through theoretical approaches, concepts, and methods related to early childhood education (psychomotor skills and attachments), family education, language development, as well as play and kindergarten pedagogy, students in the fields of educational sciences, social pedagogy, and those interested in educational policy receive a compact and up-to-date overview of the various approaches and action areas of developmental pedagogy. The author, Dr. phil. habil Karl-Heinz Braun, is a retired professor of social pedagogy/educational science at the Department of Social Work, Health, and Media at Magdeburg-Stendal University and the head of the Magdeburg Institute for Social Pedagogy.