A research of schooling is not an educational research. But educational
scholars are focused on researching of schooling. This is a fallacy of category
indisputably. In this study, we reveal disciplinary fallacies inherent in the
traditional educational studies empirically through a qualitative analysis. The
results of our analysis of the qualitative researches published in 『The Journal
of Curriculum Studies』are interesting, meaningful, and heuristic. The research
fields of 『The Journal of Curriculum Studies』adhere to school, and the
research themes of 『The Journal of Curriculum Studies』are restricted to the
themes related to school. Additionally, many qualitative researches published in
『The Journal of Curriculum Studies』describe the ‘genuine' pictures of school.
But we can not conceptualize them as educational phenomena. Finally,
curriculum as a document exist for operating school. But “overwhelming power
of university entrance examination”, “selection and competition”, “supply and
demand of teachers” are the fundamental and structural principles of operating
school.