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Social science concepts have an.impact- on the study of teacher education in developing countries, and teacher education iis a primary social force woven throughout the study of national development. A recommended approach to research on teacher education combines a study of how education influences, and in turn is influenced by, other developmental forces,and events within a national, regional, or other unifyipg network, such as religion or tribal identity. Economic, social, and political realities are major factors governing an understanding cd how teacher education telates to national progress. Economic factors are also involved in a high imbalance between numbers of students and scarcity of financial resources for education. In the realm of politics, educational programs are vulnerable to national political decisions and the kinds of.1a400ls the government demands. Social class values and attitudes and social differences among the educated and the illiterate are factors which determine inequalities/in schooling. Studying teacher education concerns in developing nations demands a set of strategies from the combined social sciences'and a-balance in methodology from each. (JD) I Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made *from the original document. CC