IMAGINARIES OF STUDENT AUTONOMY IN UNESCO AND BRAZILIAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION DISCOURSES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION
Discourse Analysis; student autonomy; artificial intelligence in education; UNESCO; MEC.
This research analyzes the imaginaries of student "autonomy" in the institutional discourses of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Ministry of Education (MEC) on Artificial Intelligence in education. Drawing on the perspective of materialist Discourse Analysis, we understand these documents as discursive materialities that exceed their technical and prescriptive dimension, constituting spaces of circulation and dispute of meanings traversed by power relations. From this standpoint, "autonomy" is understood not as a stable concept, but as a meaning-notion formulated according to its conditions of production. The study seeks to answer the following central question: how are the meanings of student autonomy regularized in the institutional discourses of UNESCO and MEC on the use of AI in education? Building on this, the study also investigates whether the Brazilian State merely reproduces the meanings stabilized in international discourse or whether there are meaning displacements in this circulation. The methodology consists of discursive analysis of a corpus composed of discursive sequences extracted from the AI Competency Framework for Students (UNESCO, 2025) and the Framework for the Responsible Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence in Education (MEC, 2026), observing the functioning of linguistic-discursive regularities. The research aims to contribute to discussions on language, technology and educational policies, evidencing the discursive processes that sustain the production of meanings.