patriotic education
Loyalty-focused curriculum
Patriotic education is instruction designed to instill love of country and national pride, typically in schools.
The term often carries critical connotations, suggesting indoctrination rather than balanced teaching: Critics called the new curriculum patriotic education rather than history.
Governments use it approvingly; opponents use it to imply propaganda that glosses over national failings.
- textbooksEducational reference volumes
- national historyA country's recorded past
- citizenshipStatus as state member
- national identityShared sense of nationhood
- national prideEsteem for one's country
love of country · collective memory · cultural heritage · propaganda · state propaganda · youth camps · founding fathers · founding documents · school curriculum · loyalty · folklore · sovereignty · community service · public speeches · nationalism · political ideology · unity · documentaries
- Asian educationConfucian academies, civil service exams, private academies, Peking University, examination halls
- nationalismnational pride, national sovereignty, national identity, national symbols, national unity
- propagandapropaganda, brainwashing, disinformation, misinformation, indoctrination
- wartime educationcurriculum changes, school closures, school reform, refugee students, air raid drills
- national mythsfounding myth, founding myths, national origin, origin story, origin stories
- indoctrinationbrainwashing, mind control, indoctrination, thought control, thought reform
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