The purpose of this study is to understand the change of power relations between educators
in the field of innovation school and to explore the implications of the power relations in
innovation schools to spread the culture of innovation school to regular schools. For the
purpose of this study, the researchers conducted in-depth interviews with the elementary school
educators of innovation school in Jeollabuk-do. The results of this study are the following:
(1) The power structure of innovation schools has shown the characteristics differ with the
power structure of the regular schools. First, the innovation school has the dynamic power
structure which forms the confrontational and mutually controlling relationships among the
school administrator, innovative-minded core teachers, and peripheral teachers. Second, the
habitus of the innovative-minded teachers is the pure, disinterested educational disposition
differentiated from the utilitarian interests and class interests. Third, innovative-minded core
teachers seem to have the hegemony which makes other teachers do self-censorship in the
innovation school.
(2) The implications of the power structure of innovation schools to spread the culture of
innovation school to regular schools are the following: It is difficult for innovation school core
teachers to hold shared interest with a school administrator showing little favor for the
innovation in the process of the application of innovation school philosophy, because there are
confrontations between the innovation school core teachers' habitus and the school
administrators' habitus. Therefore there is a need to explore the institutional measures that can
convert a symbol capital recognized in the field of innovation school into a power capital to
introduce school innovation beyond the innovation school.