Social field of education: heuristic potential of Bourdieu's theory

The article is devoted to the substantiation of the heuristic potential of the theory of social space (field) by P. Bourdieu in the study of education and its active participants - teachers of secondary schools. The approach of Bourdieu is critical to understanding the education as a field, as structural and genetic construction that allows to consider the place and role of the modern Russian teachers in the development of the education system in Russia in the context of current reforms.