This article is concerned to explore educational management studies as an intellectual field. It draws on Bernstein and on Bourdieus theorization of fields to identify its specialized discourse, the fieldv positions and their objective relations and, the location of occupants in the field. The article suggests EMS is characterized by three categories of field occupants, the academic, the practitioner and the entrepreneur. It goes on to suggest that this configuration shapes the discursive features of the field. The nature of the discourse is further explored via a survey of recent articles in EMA.
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