CR&DALL member Professor Ellen Boeren paid a visit to UCLA this May. During her 3 weeks in Los Angeles, she worked with Dr Jan Kalenda, currently a Fulbright scholar at UCLA, and previously a visiting scholar at the University’s of Glasgow School of Education. Professor Boeren and Dr Kalenda also met with Professor Richard Desjardins, core staff at UCLA, who has vast experience in researching varieties in Adult Learning Systems as well as in working with large scale survey data, including the Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).

Chile is known worldwide as a Neoliberal laboratory, and this book opens the door to the subjectivities within that space in education. For example, the idea that better parents are the ones who pay for their children’s schools; or that admission tests applied by selective schools speaks of education quality and enhances parents’ merit.