Prof. Dr. Ina Scheffler

September 2023 to present

Professor of Art Education in the field of Educational Science/Childhood, Art and Waldorf Education, Program Director, Master of Education, Dual-Subject Art Teaching Degree at Alanus University, Alfter

October 2019 to August 2023

University teaching and research associate (postdoc), Working Group for Vocational and Business Education, subject area Educational Science, Faculty II Education – Architecture – Arts, Department of Educational Science, University of Siegen

April 2018 to September 2019 

Acting Professorship in Cultural Education, Faculty II Education – Architecture – Arts, Department of Art and Music, University of Siegen

April 2015 to March 2018 

Acting Professorship in Art Didactics for Teacher Education and Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

April 2014 to March 2015

University teaching as research associate (Art History) in Art History/Teacher Education at the Seminar for Art History, Faculty II Education – Architecture – Arts, Department of Art – Music, University of Siegen

April 2014 to April 2017 

Teaching assignment in Art Didactics for Teacher Education and Fine Arts, State Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf

November 2013 to April 2014 

Teacher of Art and English at lower and upper secondary level at the Protestant Theodor Fliedner Gymnasium Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth

October 2013

Second State Examination for teaching at Gymnasium and comprehensive schools, University of Siegen

April 2012 to October 2013 

Teacher training placement at the ZfsL Düsseldorf and at the Protestant Theodor Fliedner Gymnasium Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth

October 2007 – May 2011

Study of Art with Thomas Bechinger, Judith Samen and Michel Sauer, Educational Sciences and English at the University of Siegen

First State Examination for teaching at Gymnasium and comprehensive schools, University of Siegen, thesis: Anew! Works on Paper – Scenes of Productive Revisions

May 2007

Degree: Magistra Artium in Cultural Anthropology/Folklore Studies, Modern English Literature and Scandinavian Studies at the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn

Monographs:

Polarization and New Beginnings. ZERO Art in an Elementary School Building as a Sign of the Turning Point of the Postwar Era, Using the Rolandschule Düsseldorf as an Example, ARTIFICIUM, Writings on Art and Art Mediation edited by Kunibert Bering, Volume 69, Athena Verlag Oberhausen 2020

Edited volumes:

(with Hildegard Jacobs) Stiftung Monjau-Levin (ed.): Hildegard Jacobs/Ina Scheffler: Julo Levin and the Children’s Drawings. Didactic accompanying material for schools (museum case in cooperation with the Düsseldorf City Museum and the Düsseldorf Memorial and Documentation Center, Düsseldorf 2018)

(with Henrike Plegge): Conference proceedings Rearranging! The Moment of Change in Educational Institutional Spaces, Oberhausen 2018

(with Joseph Imorde/Florian Schmitt): Commemorative publication for Michel Sauer on the occasion of his retirement, Siegen 2014

Articles:

Towards a Democratic Future. Art,and Education,at Black Mountain College, in: Carolin Höfler, Johanna Mehl (Hg.): Attending to Futures, Berlin/Boston 2023, pp. 119-125

Lyonel Feininger’s Locomotives and Trains. Experiencing Materials and Colors Through Toys as Learning Materials at the Bauhaus, pp. 209-224, in: GamesCoop (Hg.): Special Issue: Ludomaterialities, Vol. 2 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18996.

(with Ulrike Buchmann): »C’est un bureau pour moi« – Social difference and transformations of the workplace and their significance in the context of the pandemic, working from home and data flows, in: Dietmar Heisler, Jörg Meier (eds.): Vocational Education between Hygiene Measures and Lockdown(s): Consequences for School-Based and Extracurricular Vocational Education in Schools, Companies and Educational Providers, 2022, pp. 113-134

Toys from the Bauhaus: Play materials for spectrums of activities, stimuli and possibilities, and their relationship to action, in: Sara Hornäk et. al (eds.): Bauhaus Paradigms,  Arts, Design and Pedagogy, Berlin/Boston 2020, pp. 303-316

›Lyonel Feiningers Block-Eisenbahn, International. Modellgetreu. Unzerbrechlich‹ Material and color experiences through toys as learning materials at the Bauhaus, in: Claudius Clüver et. al. (eds.): Navigationen. Journal for Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 1/20, Siegen 2020, pp.179-192

Economies of perception in the age of virtuality, in: Andreas Zeising/Joseph Imorde (eds.): Lehrgut. Art History in Schoolbooks and Teaching Media around 1900, Siegen 2018, pp. 55-62

Playing and Educating. The change in artistic and architectural aspirations and concepts for playgrounds and schoolyards from the postwar period to the present day, in: Henrike Plegge/Ina Scheffler (eds.): Rearranging! The Moment of Change in Educational Institutional Spaces, Oberhausen 2018, pp. 81-92

(with Andreas Zeising): The Genius in the Child. Children’s Drawings as an Object of Art History and Art Education: The Julo Levin Collection, in: Katja Hoffman/Stefanie Marr (eds.): Exploring. Fields of Action in Art Education between Art Didactics, Artistic Practice, and Art Scholarship, Oberhausen 2017, pp. 121-140

Reflection, backdrop and consumption – reception and production of historical and contemporary (self-)portraits as a problem of art didactics? in: Bering, Kunibert (ed.): Image/Art History. Suggestions from an Art Education Perspective, Oberhausen 2016, pp. 59-68

Between memory and historical document. Children’s drawings from the 1940s from the collection of the Jewish artist and art educator Julo Levin, in: Kunibert Bering/Rolf Niehoff (eds.): Impulse. Art Didactics 17, May 2015, 43-52

The artist Otto Pankok and ›Das wilde Heinefeld‹ as a place of urban planning and cultural freedom, in: Stefanie Marr (ed.): Siegen:Sozial. Special issue Cultural Education, 1/2015, pp. 62-68

(with Christiane Schürkmann) The Wave in Art, in: Diagonal. Journal of the University of Siegen, 2010 volume, pp. 189-201

Shorter writings:

Standard and Freedom, in: Christine Heil/Sabine Sutter (eds.): How to Open Space, Norderstedt 2019, pp. 20-21

Here and Now. The present, contemporary art and artistic thinking as fruitful educational moments, Lerchenfeld 46/2018, pp. 20-23

At the interface of architecture and pedagogy. Perception and spatial order as shaping factors for social processes, in: Sozialpädagogische Impulse 2/2018, pp. 27-30

REARRANGING in art. Gregor Schneider: ›Ich glaube an Räume‹, in: Henrike Plegge/Ina Scheffler (eds.): Rearranging! The Moment of Change in Educational Institutional Spaces, Oberhausen 2018, pp. 53-57

REARRANGING in art. Hito Steyerl’s spaces, in: Henrike Plegge/Ina Scheffler (eds.): Rearranging! The Moment of Change in Educational Institutional Spaces, Oberhausen 2018, pp. 53-57

ZERO Creates Space in the School. School Architecture and Experimental Art at the Rolandschule in Düsseldorf, in: Christina Budde/Barbara Shatry/Inez Wagner/Arne Winkelmann (eds.): Full-Day Architecture. Spaces for Intercultural Education. Documentation of the Conference at the German Architecture Museum, 20/21 November 2013, Munich 2014, pp. 115-118

Art Education and Interdisciplinarity, in: Sara Burkhardt/Torsten Meyer/ Mario Urlaß (eds.): Convention. Results and Suggestions #Tradition #Action #Vision, Book 03, Munich 2013, p. 223

ArtEduCamp. Impressions, in: Christine Heil/Gila Kolb,/Torsten Meyer (eds.): shift #Globalization #MediaCultures #Contemporary Art. Book 01, Munich 2012, p. 75

Dictionary entries:

[Lemma] Action, in: Kunibert Bering/Karina Pauls/Rolf Niehoff (eds.): Dictionary of Art Education, Oberhausen 2017, pp. 22-23

(with Rolf Niehoff): [Lemma] Methods in Art Lessons, in: Kunibert Bering/Karina Pauls/Rolf Niehoff (eds.): Dictionary of Art Education, Oberhausen 2017, pp. 347-350

[Lemma] Selfie, in: Kunibert Bering/Karina Pauls/Rolf Niehoff (eds.): Dictionary of Art Education, Oberhausen 2017, pp. 439-442

(with Kunibert Bering): [Lemma] School Architecture, in: Kunibert Bering/Karina Pauls/Rolf Niehoff (eds.): Dictionary of Art Education, Oberhausen 2017, pp. 436-439

September 2025, together with O. Bilgi and P. Gelitz: Between Grief, Hope and Resilience. Artistic-Pedagogical Explorations of Transformative University Teaching in Times of Crisis. Conference contribution as part of the conference “Educational Science and Sustainability – Working Through Resistance. Shaping Futures.” at the University of Cologne.

June 2025: Narratives and Art Educational Planning – a historical collection of children’s drawings from the Nazi era as an example of connections between image and narrative. Lecture in the Art Education lecture series at the University of Cologne

June 2025,  together with Prof. M. Baumgartner (State Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf): Research as a Complex of Artistic Methods – Children’s Drawings as a Source. Workshop at the Düsseldorf City Museum and the Düsseldorf Memorial and Documentation Center.

May 2025,  together with Prof. M. Baumgartner (State Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf): Imagine it’s school and you’re the only one not allowed to go” – Memory Acts for a Learning Space. Workshop during the Düsseldorf History Festival 2025 – What was? What is? What remains?!

March 2025: Resonance spaces of crisis: curricula and complexity reduction as whitewater currents of contemporary art mediation. Lecture at the annual conference of the AK Sociology of the Arts in cooperation with the AK DGS Section for Environmental and Sustainability Sociology.

June 2024,  together with Prof. M. Baumgartner (State Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf), Anna Schlieck and Jona Winstroth (Memorial and Documentation Center of the State Capital Düsseldorf): Approaching Julo Levin. Image Production as a Practice of Solidarity. Workshop at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, the Beatrice Strauss Center of the Memorial and Documentation Center, and the Düsseldorf City Museum.

October 2023: The Concept of Work as an Art Educational Perspective on the Mediation of Subject and Object. Lecture on the topic of Art Education of Complexity at the University of Cologne.