School of Artificers Apprentices or School of Apprentices and Artificers?

ABSTRACT The first landmark event of a national policy about professional formation in Brazil was the foundation of 19 Schools of “Aprendizes Artífices” under a federal decree in 1909. After finding numerous mistakes in dissertations and theses, which presented the origin of the federal network of professional and technological education, using the terms “school of artificers apprentices” adding “e” between the terms, then becoming “school of apprentices and artificers”, had presented the challenge that fostered the research for this article, in order to try to understand this use and present the diachronic significance, from a conceptual, historical and socioeconomic point of view. This research employed a quantitative search of the uses of the terms in computer search engines, from which the analysis was referenced in bibliography related to the historical, economic and social aspects, reflected in the conjunctural use and the linguistic significance about each one. Finally, the reflection seeks to translate the political, legal and social interest of that expression, which is related to the structure of an era and reveals that the proper use of the term, while preserving its originality, translates a meaning that is dialectical, both in representation and on the material basis of the society of that time.

摘要 巴西职业教育国家政策的首个标志性事件，是1909年依据联邦法令设立19所"Aprendizes Artífices"学校。经调研发现，诸多学位论文中关于巴西联邦职业技术教育网络起源的表述存在多处谬误：部分文本将术语写为"school of artificers apprentices"，部分则在词汇间添加连接词"e"，最终演变为"school of apprentices and artificers"。这一术语使用乱象催生了本文的研究，旨在从概念、历史与社会经济维度，厘清该术语的使用逻辑并阐释其历时性意义。本研究通过计算机搜索引擎对该术语的使用情况开展量化检索，并结合历史、经济与社会相关学术文献展开分析，以剖析不同语境下的术语使用特征及其语言学内涵。最后，本研究的反思环节旨在阐释该表述所承载的政治、法律与社会意涵——其与特定时代的社会结构紧密关联，并揭示：在保留术语原创性的前提下，正确使用该术语可传递出兼具辩证性的内涵，既体现在符号表征层面，也扎根于当时社会的物质基础之中。