Adverse childhood experiences, attachment, and the early years learning environment

The final chapter reviews links between the three concepts of adverse childhood experiences, attachment, and the early years’ learning environment in a context of research and inclusive pedagogy. Several concepts are discussed and present the complexity of knowledge acquisition in the early years: schemas as the patterns of play which a child uses to gain meaning of his world, a culture of practice which can evolve within an organisation, throughout a local community and which can increase participation, and finally quality assurance which provides challenges and questions the current focus upon pre-determined outcomes in the context of inclusion.