The purpose of this study is to how the concept of field and habitus in the theory of P. Bourdieu
can be applied in the analysis of the field of the school and the habitus of the teachers. The results
of this study are followings: first, in the perspective of the field, the school can be viewed as a
social field, which is different from both the Marxist view on the school as a ideological state
apparatus of the reproduction theory and the traditional view on the school as a neutral institution
isolated from the society. Second, the positions of the teachers are placed according to the power
capital in the field of the school and the teachers' struggles for the transformation of the structure of
the power capital are observed. Third, there are the special(symbolic) interests of the teachers
concerning education, which cannot be explained by the logics of utilitarian interests or class
interests. Especially many teachers in the Korean Teachers' Union showed the disinterested sacrificing
struggle for the democratization of education in the 1980's, which brought them the symbolic
interests such as "true teacher". This cannot be properly understood without the concept of their
educational habitus. However, it does not imply that the current teachers also have the educational
habitus as before. It is not evident. One of the tasks for the further study is to exploring whether
the school field is still the social space structuring the educational habitus for the teachers and what
is the feature of the habitus of the current teachers.