Mian Wang of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School gave an invited talk at the conference “Education Reform in the Internet Age and Education 2030 Agenda” held in Qingdao, China, June 22-24. This International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Education was co-organized by UNESCO, the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, and the Education Management Information Center of the Chinese Ministry of Education. More than 580 representatives attended the Congress, including educational officials of national and international agencies, presidents of universities, experts and scholars, as well as representatives of some giant international ICT enterprises from all over of the world.
Dr. Wang was invited to present in a panel session on Information and Communication Technology and Special Education and delivered the lecture titled “ICT as Equalizer for Educational Inequality of Students with Disabilities in Inclusion.”
Mian Wang is a Professor in the Department of Education, specializing in Special Education, Disability, and Risk Studies. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Patras, Greece, in Applied Developmental Psychology with an emphasis on Cognitive Development of Children with Intellectual Disabilities as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in Special Education with an emphasis on Family and Disability Policy. Wang has years of experience working in the field of disability and special education in several countries such as Canada, China, Greece, and the United States. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Psychology in China. His research interests include: child and family outcomes of early childhood services, family-professional partnership, atypical child development, positive behavioral support in cultural context, and disability policy. He is the winner of the 2009 Early Career Award by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) and the Director of the Pacific Rim Center for Research on Special Education & Disability.