One obvious implication of relationality is its necessary grounding in contexts. If the real is relational and reality is contextual then a relational analysis would be an analysis of the context. Eacott warns us that the context matters narrative has done little to define what context is. Clearly, context is not synonym with local. In research, we use context as a heuristic, as a category that helps us situate the object of inquiry. While most of the research in educational administration has adopted the context matters dictum, the definition of the context usually corresponds to pre-established categories, such as the school, the district, or the nation. Without a critical examination of the discourses that frame their definition of the context, researchers are destined to reproduce these taken-for-granted categories