reeducator
One who retrains
A reeducator is a person or institution that undertakes to change someone's beliefs, values, or habits—often with coercive overtones.
The term carries strong associations with authoritarian regimes that use "reeducation" to enforce ideological conformity: The reeducators subjected prisoners to daily indoctrination sessions.
In neutral contexts, it might describe anyone attempting systematic correction of someone's thinking, though the word rarely sheds its sinister connotations.
Coercive psychological manipulation
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- indoctrinateImplant fixed beliefs
- inculcateImplant by persistent urging
- conditioningLearned behavioral adaptation
manipulation · coercion · programming · thought reform · political prisoner · conformity · radicalization · deradicalization
Curative mental treatment
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- reintegrationRestoration to a group
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
- resocializationAcquiring replacement norms and values
transformation · counseling · remediation · reconditioning · behavioral modification · vocational training · reentry · parole
Established body of teachings
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
- beliefTrust held as true
- creedStatement of belief
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
tenet · worldview · ideology · partisanship · sectarianism · radicalism · extremism · fundamentalism
One who instructs others
- mentorTrusted wisdom-giving advisor
- tutorIndividual instruction provider
- coachOne who instructs
- trainerOne who conditions others
facilitator · counselor · pedagogue · reformer · political officer · commissar · cadre · supervisor
brainwashing
Coercive psychological manipulation
- propagandaBiased information for influence
- indoctrinateImplant fixed beliefs
- inculcateImplant by persistent urging
conditioning · manipulation · coercion · programming · thought reform · political prisoner · conformity · radicalization · deradicalization · deprogramming
therapy
Curative mental treatment
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- reintegrationRestoration to a group
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
resocialization · transformation · counseling · remediation · reconditioning · behavioral modification · vocational training · reentry · parole · probation
doctrine
Established body of teachings
orthodoxy · tenet · worldview · ideology · partisanship · sectarianism · radicalism · extremism · fundamentalism · nationalism
teacher
One who instructs others
trainer · facilitator · counselor · pedagogue · reformer · political officer · commissar · cadre · supervisor · overseer
reeducatorliberator
One who frees others
emancipator · free thinker · enlightener · deprogrammer · facilitator
reeducatordissident
Opposer of established systems
liberator · freedom fighter · resistance leader · subversive · resistance fighter
- reeducation campDetention for ideological reprogramming