Abstract
Even if the type, quality, content and place of education change, it is accepted as an educational principle to know the developmental features in order to structure the educational processes. In this context, the main subject of the article is to consider the concept of developmental tasks, put forward by Havighurst, from the perspective of religion, morality and values education. The purpose of the article is to question the possibility of thinking about the values education of young people in the family as a principled and educational approach, focusing on developmental assignments. The focus of the work is that developmental periods and development tasks are areas that support each other. Attribution of task is to see the situation that is characteristic of the determined period as a task to be acquired. And structuring the educational process accordingly. In this regard, “What are the developmental tasks of the youth period?, What can be the educational principles that support the developmental tasks in the family value education? The questions are the main questions of the article. In order to produce answers to these questions, literature review and document analysis methods, which are among the qualitative research methods, were preferred in the artcile. First of all, by making conceptual analysis of key concepts, cognitive, religious, personality, moral development characteristics and development tasks of youth period were determined. As a result, these have been achieved: The developmental characteristics of the youth period and the development tasks progress in a similar direction. The educational nature of the adoption of an approach focused on development tasks in religion, morality and value education. In addition, the content to be determined in the value education of young people in the family should feed critical thinking. And subject-centered interaction method may be preferred.