Ingrid Forsler

My research interests concern imaginaries surrounding digital media in education and how they are expected to transform learning. In recent years, I have been particularly interested in the growing resistance to digital technology in education and how this resistance is discussed and justified in the public debate.

I am also interested in media education and have been involved in the field of media and information literacy in both research and education. With a background as a teacher in visual arts, I have specifically focused on media pedagogy within the framework of art education and how visual methods can be used to explore and create knowledge about media technologies, both inside and outside the school context.

Current projects

Between 2025 and 2027, I am participating in the research project Art Education in Transformation: Reconstruction and Subject Development for Visual Arts in the Revised Primary Teacher Education (funded by The Swedish Research Council), which examines how the reformed teacher education in visual arts edcuation in Sweden contributes to reshaping art as a school subject. By studying the relationship between policy documents and the conditions for art education at different universities across Sweden, the project contributes with knowledge about the imaginaries shaping the education of future art teachers.

I also participate in the internally funded project Generative AI and Post-Truth: Epistemic Challenges in Schools and Teacher Education (2026 – 2027), which examines how teachers and teacher students understand, evaluate, and respond to the epistemic crisis emerging at the intersection of generative AI and an era characterized by post-truth dynamics. The project develops both theoretical perspectives on how AI is reshaping the conditions for knowledge, epistemic authority and truth claims in education, and pedagogical perspectives on how teacher education can prepare future teachers to navigate these challenges.

I also lead the practice based ULF project (Education–Learning–Research), Media Literacy for the Youngest: Working with Children's Experiences of Digital Media and AI in the “Screen-Free” Preschool, carried out in collaboration with preschool educators in Stockholm municipality (2026 – 2027). The project explores how younger children's media experiences can be addressed in preschools through critical, reflective, and creative pedagogical practices, at the same time as the broader societal climate is marked by concerns about young children's digital media use.

Background and previous research

I have both my bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Art and Craft Education at Konstfack, Sweden. In 2020 I defended my thesis on how visual arts education in Sweden and Estonia has been historically transformed in relation to different media technologies, Enabling Media: Infrastructures, imaginaries and cultural techniques in Swedish and Estonian visual arts education. The dissertation received the FSMK dissertation prize 2021 and can be acsessed in full text here External link, opens in new window..

I have also participated in the following research and development projects:

• Baltic Sea Foundation (2026) for the conference Postdigital Backlash: Past, Present, Future External link, opens in new window. (Zagreb, 22-23 June 2026).
• Baltic Sea Foundation (2022 - 2025) for the project Anticipating and Mediating Future Classrooms: Ed-Tech Imaginaries of Learning, Communication, and Citizen-Making in Estonia and Sweden. External link, opens in new window.
• Teacher education, Södertörn University (2023-2024) for the project The Algorithm – The Student’s Best Friend? AI, Examinations, and Critical Thinking in Higher Education.
• SI Creative force (2020) for the project Media Literacy for Tomorrow: Learning with MENA Youth Media Activists External link, opens in new window..
• Teacher education, Södertörn University (2020) for the project "Skärmhjärnan goes to school" - neuropedagogical discourses on media and learning.

Internal positions of trust

• Member of the Faculty Board for Södertörn University
• Developmental manager for digitalization, The Development Unit for Higher Education Pedagogy, Södertörn University
• Co-funder and contact person for Södertörn Media Archeological Collection (SMS)

External networks and positions of trust

• Editor of the collection Postdigital Dialogues External link, opens in new window.
  
• Local coordinator for The Global Academy of Liberal Arts (GALA) External link.
• Board Member and Secretary of FSMK (The Association for Swedish Media and Communication Research)
• Board member of InSea Sweden (The International Society for Education Through Art)
  
• Editoral board member for the journal Universitas-XX1 External link.
• Editoral board member for the journal Pedagogical External link, opens in new window.
  Sciences External link, opens in new window.