Confused case made for scholastic fields (8)

I believe the answer is:

academes

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'scholastic fields' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both groups as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'confused case made' is the wordplay.
'confused' is an anagram indicator.
'case'+'made'='casemade'
'casemade' is an anagram of 'ACADEMES'.

'for' acts as a link.

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