«Læreraksjonen» i Norge 1942: Fra protest og paroler til kompromiss og konsensus : En analyse av «læreraksjonen» i lys av teorien om den nordiske modell for politisk kultur og Contentious politics («konfliktfull politikk») – med et vesteuropeisk komparativt blikk

Master's thesis in History (HI501) My Master thesis aims to discuss the conflicts that arose within the Norwegian school system in 1942, a time when the national socialistic party Nasjonal Samling (NS)attempted to nazify the Norwegian society through seizing control over educational establishments. In order for the indoctrination of Nazism among school children to succeed, Norwegian teachers were to be forcibly organized into the common organization, the Norwegian Teachers' Union (Norges Lærersamband). This was to ensure the party’s control over the teaching staff and the content of the education. In this thesis,I will seek to explain the conflicts that unfolded between the teaching staff a…