reeducation

[ree ej-oo-kay-shuhn]

noun

1. the act or process of reeducating, such as for a new purpose, as a method of moral reform, or as rehabilitation following an injury.

Example Sentences

It would have called out the Russian president for the Ukrainian children — more than 20,000 — who have been abducted by Russia, some of whom have been forced into reeducation camps or paramilitary groups in an effort to turn them into Russian soldiers to fight against their own country.

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This is a standard tactic of dictators and other authoritarians where those who are “mentally ill” and “sick” because of their incorrect thinking are removed from society and put in prisons, reeducation camps, “mental hospitals” or worse until they are “cured.”

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Maduro’s government has arrested more than 2,000 people without trial since election day; deployed Russian Wagner group mercenaries, Cuban secret police and other forces; and promised to send critics to “reeducation camps.”

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Especially for Episode 7, we didn't want it to get bogged down in the weight of the philosophy and history, because there's a lot to explain in terms of the mechanism of these reeducation camps that a lot of viewers won't know about.

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The entire tale is told in retrospect now that he's returned to Vietnam after his sojourn in the U.S. and it's his North Vietnamese comrades in the reeducation camp — or are they his jailors? — whom he must convince of his loyalties.

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