History A-Level
State control of education and culture
What State control of education and culture means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of State control of education and culture
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The Nazis centralised education, purged teachers and reshaped the curriculum around race and obedience, while culture was purged and redirected through the Reich Chamber of Culture.
Topics that use State control of education and culture
- Aspects of life in Germany and West Germany, 1918–89 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Access and social inequality in schooling
- Continuing discrimination and minority experience
- Cultural experimentation and conservative backlash
- Escalation of Nazi racial policy and the Holocaust
- Integration and antisemitism in the Weimar Republic
- Legal equality and memory in the FRG
- Nazi policies and the Second World War
- Re-education, democracy and generational conflict in the FRG
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