CULTURE AND ICONOGRAPHY OF EDUCATION AND MATERNAL CARE IN ANCIENT EGYPT

Abstract

In this paper I attempt to present the main ideological contents, educational goals and values, patterns of child perception (child image and child perception), as well as maternal education and care, and in this connection the main features of the ancient Egyptian cult of motherhood, largely through the presentation of admonitions and myths, but also by involving a group of sources that are rather infrequently used in educational history research. This group of sources covers only plastic works (sculptures and reliefs), but within this range I focus primarily on depictions of pregnancy and the mother-child relationship, which constitute the majority of child depictions of the age. In the course of the analysis, I focus on the examination of the ideological definiteness of the compositions along the form analysis, and thus I cover, among other things, the perception of the representational differences arising from the social-historical position of the artworks. On the one hand, the examined works confirm the findings in the literature, while on the other hand, they provide important additional information for research in pedagogical history.