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Outdoor-Oriented Education in the United States and India

Closing the Gap

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Education and Society in Comparative Context

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The ideas that underlie an international school of thought can be adapted or assimilated to the national philosophical tradition as they cross national borders. Phillips (2004) concluded that this kind of assimilation is possible if the new current of ideas is experienced as philosophically or ideologically fascinating and the national context is also receptive for political, economic, or social reasons.

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Kimonen, E. (2015). Outdoor-Oriented Education in the United States and India. In: Education and Society in Comparative Context. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-373-5_5

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