Educating Silicon Valley: corporate education reform and the reproduction of the techno-economic revolution

Citation

Williamson B (2017) Educating Silicon Valley: corporate education reform and the reproduction of the techno-economic revolution. Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 39 (3), pp. 265-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2017.1326274

Abstract
Silicon Valley is seeking to reform education in its own image, as part of a ‘techno-economic revolution’ that is spreading globally. This essay provides an original analysis of how Silicon Valley is seeking to reproduce its centrality to the techno-economic revolution through technology-based reformatory efforts in education. In so doing, it is becoming a major influence in corporate education reform, seeking to take its new pedagogic practices, technical platforms and economic models to the reform of state education at massive scale.

Keywords
corporate education reform; educational technology; information capitalism; Silicon Valley

Journal
Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies: Volume 39, Issue 3