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Między pracą zawodową a edukacją dzieci - sytuacja zawodowa rodziców edukujących domowo

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The article concerns the choices between career and the upbringing of children which home educating parents make, having to provide constant care for them since they decided not to send them to school. It presents the results of qualitative studies done in Poland (2012–2019) made by narrative interview and virtual ethnography. It focuses on mothers-educators, because women are more involved in the education of children. The reconstructed professional situation of modern homeschoolers allows one to enter them into two discourses of motherhood: momism and superwomen. Those women, regardless if they take up a job or focus on just homeschooling, are connected by a simultaneous feeling of tiredness and happiness. Fathers do not stop working because of home education, mostly working full time. Popular models of employment among Polish homeschooling families are business activity, freelance, remote work. Among the participants in the study the traditional family model did not dominate, most of the time both parents were professionally active.