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V.K. Raina (India) Professor of Teacher Education, Department of Teacher Education and Extension, National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi. Main areas of interest include research, development and training in teacher education and social science education. Recent publications include:The realities of teaching history (1992) andTeacher educators: a perspective (1998). He has published more than fifty research papers in national and international journals and is currently editor of theIndian educational review.

The author wishes to acknowledge the comments of Ram Narain Mehrotra and Ashok Srivastava on earlier drafts of this paper, and the help of Rajendra Dixit in translating certain quotations from Hindi.

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Raina, V.K. Indigenizing teacher education in developing countries: The Indian context. Prospects 29, 5–25 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02736822

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