X. Christine Wang
Director, Fisher-Price Endowed Early Childhood Research Center
Professor
LEARNING AND INSTRUCTION
Specialty/Research Focus
Curriculum and Instruction; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Diversity; Digital Innovations; Digital Media and Learning; Child and Adolescent Development; Cognition; Curriculum and Instruction; Gender, Culture, and Equity; Global Issues; Design Experiments; International Education; Literacy; Ethnography; Immigrant Issues; Learning Communities; Science Education; Multimodality, Embodiment, and Digital Literacy; Qualitative Research Methods
Education and Training:
- PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- MEd, Beijing Normal University, China
- BA, Beijing Normal University, China
Awards and Honors:
- Faculty in Residence Fellow; UB GSE Faculty in Residence Fellowship; 2019-12-01;
- Nominated for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award, UB, 2018-2019; Graduate School, UB; 2018-10-22;
- Faculty STAR (Service, Teaching, Advisement & Research)- Service Award; GSE, UB; 2017-05-17;
- Young Scholar Paper Award, “An Ethnographic Case Study of a Bilingual Child’s Ethnic Identity Construction.” (Co-authored with Hyonsuk Cho (my former doctoral student and GA).; Korean-American Educational Researcher Association (KAERA); 2017-04-27;
Grants:
Grant:
- MuMoExplore: Exploring Critical Pedagogy of Place and Multimodal Digital Technology to Engage Young Children’s Science and Literacy Learning; Local; GSE MEGAS Grant; Awarded; (01/01/2019-12/31/2019)
- Fostering Intellectual Virtue through the Guided Exploration of Contested Areas of Learning in the Classroom; Foundation and Research Organization; UB Humanities Institute Seed Grant; Awarded; (08/28/2018-05/15/2019)
- Dual Language Learners’ Social-Emotional Language Socialization; Local; University of North Dakota, New Faculty Scholar Award; Awarded; (05/01/2017-04/30/2018)
- MuMoREADY: Supporting MultiModal Text READing with Adaptive Diagnosis and Scaffolding for Young Children; Local; SUNY-Buffalo Civic Engagement Fellowship for Grant Development; Awarded; (08/01/2015-07/31/2016)
- MuMoREADY: Supporting MultiModal Text READing with Adaptive Diagnosis and Scaffolding for Young Children; Local; GSE MEGAS Seed Grant, UB; Awarded; (08/01/2015-07/31/2016)
- ToM and Young Children’s Science Inquiry; Federal; NSF Funded National Living Lab Initiatives; Awarded; (11/01/2014-05/31/2015)
Contract:
- Better Start and Brighter Future: Kindergarten Transition in Buffalo Public Schools; Local; Say Yes to Education Buffalo; Awarded; (05/01/2015-08/31/2016)
Publications:
Journal Special Issue:
- Christ, T., Wang, X. C., Chiu, M. M., & Strekalova-Hughes, E. (2019). How app books’ affordances are related to young children’s reading behaviors and outcomes. In A. Bus, S. B. Neuman, & K. Roskos (Eds.). American Educational Research Association Open, Special Issue: Screens, Apps, and Digital Books for Young Children: The Promise of Multimedia, 5(2), 1-18. DOI: 10.1177/2332858419859843
- Wang, X. C., Christ, T., Chiu, M. M. & Strekalova-Hughes, E. (2019). Exploring the relationship between kindergarteners’ buddy reading and individual comprehension of interactive app books. In A. Bus, S. B. Neuman, & K. Roskos (Eds.). American Educational Research Association Open, Special Issue: Screens, Apps, and Digital Books for Young Children: The Promise of Multimedia, 5(3), 1–17. DOI: 10.1177/2332858419869343
Journal Article:
- Cho, H. & Wang, X. C. (2020). Fluid identity play: A case study of a bilingual child’s ethnic identity construction across multiple contexts. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 18(2), 200-213. DOI: 10.1177/1476718X19898746
- Andrews, K., & Wang, X. C. (2019). Young children's emergent science competencies in everyday family contexts: A case study. Early Child Development and Care, 189(8), 1351-1368. DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2017.1379516
- Cho, H., Wang, X. C, & Christ, T. (2019). Social-emotional learning of refugee English language learners in early elementary grades: Teachers’ perspectives. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 33(1): 40-55. DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2018.1531449
- Christ, T., Wang, X. C., Chiu, M. M. & Cho, H. (2019). Kindergartener’s meaning-making with multimodal app books: The relations amongst reader characteristics, app book characteristics, and comprehension outcomes. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 47 (2), 357-372. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2019.01.003
- Strekalova-Hughes, E. & Wang, X. C. (2019). Perspectives of Children from Refugee Backgrounds on Their Family Storytelling as a Culturally Sustaining Practice. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 33(1): 6-21. DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2018.1531452
- Wang, X. C., Benson, K., Eggleston, C., & Lin B. (2019). A guided-exploration based visual arts program in early childhood education. Young Children, 74(1),72-80.
- Wang, X. C., Strekalova-Hughes, E., & Cho., H. (2019). Going beyond a single story: Experience and education of refugee children at home, school, and community. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 33(1): 1-5. DOI: 10.1080/02568543.2018.1531670
- Christ, T., Wang, X. C., & Erdemir, E. (2018). Young children’s buddy reading with multimodal app books: Reading patterns and characteristics of readers, texts and contexts. Early Child Development and Care, 18(8), 1012-1030. DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2016.1241776
- Andrews, K., & Wang, X. C. (2017). Young children's emergent science competencies in everyday family contexts: A case study. Early Child Development and Care. DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2017.1379516
- Christ, T., Wang, X.C., & Chiu, M.M. (2017). Exploring factors related to young children’s word-meaning derivations during read-alouds. Reading Psychology, 38(1), 1-38
- Wang, Z., Wang, X. C., & Chui, F. W. Y. (2017). Young children’s understanding of teaching and learning and their theory of mind development: A causal analysis from a cross-cultural perspective. Front. Psychol. 8:725. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00725
- Szente, J., Wang, X. C., Thirumurthy, V., Mebratu, B., & Bakuza, F. R. (2015). Overview of early childhood education in China, India, Ethiopia, and Tanzania. International Journal of Early Childhood Education and Care, 4, 1-28. Chris, T., Wang, X. C., & Chiu, M. M. (2015). Emergent readers’ social interaction styles and their comprehension processes during buddy reading, Literacy Research and Instruction, 54(1), 45-66.
- Wang, X. C., Christ, T., & Chiu, M. M. (2014). Exploring a comprehensive model for early childhood vocabulary instruction: A design experiment. Early Child Development and Care, 184(7), 1075-1106.
Book Chapter:
- Li. H., & Wang, X. C. (2017). International perspectives on early childhood education in the Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. In N. Rao, J. Zhou, & J. Sun (Eds.). Early Childhood Education in Chinese Societies (pp. 235-250). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
- Christ, T., & Wang, X. C. (2015). Young children reading iPad app books together: Reading approaches, meaning making, and changes over time. In Lindwall, O., Häkkinen, P., Koschman, T. Tchounikine, P. & Ludvigsen, S. (Eds.) (2015). Exploring the Material Conditions of Learning: The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Conference 2015, Volume 1 (pp. 799-800). Gothenburg, Sweden: The International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Other:
- Christ, T., & Wang, X. C. (2015). Young children reading iPad app books together: Reading approaches, meaning making, and changes over time. In Lindwall, O., Häkkinen, P., Koschman, T. Tchounikine, P. & Ludvigsen, S. (Eds.) (2015). Exploring the Material Conditions of Learning: The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Conference 2015, Volume 1 (pp. 799-800). Gothenburg, Sweden: The International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Presentations:
Invited Lectures:
- Wang, X. C. (2019, October). Fostering young children’s computational thinking: A systematic review. Invited presentation at Early Childhood Educational Research Workshop, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China.;
- Wang, X. C. (2019, October). Scaffolding young children’s computational thinking. Invited presentation at College of Preschool Education, Shandong Yingcai University, Jinan, China.;
- Wang, X. C., & Choi, Y., (2019, October). Teachers’ scaffolding of preschoolers’ computational thinking. Invited presentation at Improving Scientific Literacy Forum, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.;
- Wang, X. C. (2018, July). Exploring the relationship between kindergarteners’ buddy reading and individual comprehension of multimodal digital texts. Invited presentation at International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Technologies for Early Childhood Education, IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems. Jinan, China.;
- Wang, X. C. (2018, July). Qualitative research in early childhood education. Invited presentation at Workshop on Qualitative Methodology and Early Childhood Education, Sponsored by Journal of Studies in Early Childhood Education, Changsha, China.;
- Wang, X. C. (2018, July). Studying, working, and living in the U.S.: Personal experience and reflection. Invited presentation at Shandong Yingcai University, Jinan, China.;
- Wang, X. C. (2017, October). Young children’s engagement with multimodal text. Invited presentation at Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China.;
- Wang, X. C. (2017, October). Young children’s epistemic reasoning in classroom-based scientific inquiry projects. Keynote presentation at the Conference on Early Childhood Education in the Era of Scientific and Technological Innovation: STEM in Early Childhood Education (hosted by Chinese Society of Education), Shanghai, China.;
- Wang, X. C. (2017, October). Young children’s story-(re)telling with peers on iPad. Keynote presentation at the Conference on Early Childhood Education in the Era of Scientific and Technological Innovation: STEM in Early Childhood Education (hosted by Chinese Society of Education), Shanghai, China.;
- Wang, X. C. (2016, June). Multimodal text and young children’s multimodal learning. Keynote presentation at the Conference on Improving Quality of Research on Early Childhood Research (hosted by Studies in Early Childhood Education for its 30th-anniversary celebration), Changsha, China.;
- Wang, X. C. (2016, June). Young children’s story-retelling with multimodal text. Invited presentation at Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.;
- Strekalova-Hughes, E., & Wang, X. C. (2015, April). Power of words: Exploring storytelling practices of refugee families. Invited presentation at annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.;
Conferences:
- Wang, X. C. (2020, June). “Sometimes the Internet doesn’t know everything”: Exploring young children’s epistemic reasoning in their inquiry practice. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Nashville, TN. (Virtual);
- *Wang, X. C., Choi, Y., Benson, K., Eggleston, C., & Weber, D. (2020, April). Teachers’ role in fostering preschoolers’ computational thinking. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA (Cancelled).;
- Benson, K., & Wang, X. C. (2019, November). Working toward a guided-exploration approach: Design-based research of a visual arts program in a preschool classroom. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Education for Young Children, Nashville, TN.;
- Lin, B., & Wang, X. C. (2019, April). Guiding preschoolers’ science learning through dialogic teaching: A case study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada.;
- Wang, X. C. (2019, March). “Google it”: Exploring young children’s epistemic reasoning in scientific inquiry. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD;
- Wang, X. C., Christ, T., & Misfud, C. L. (2019, April). “iPad has everything!”: How young children with diverse linguistic backgrounds in Malta and the U.S. process multimodal digital text. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada.;
- Cho, H., Wang, X. C., & Christ, T., (2018, April). Social-emotional learning of refugee English language learners in early elementary grades: Teachers’ perspectives. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.;
- Christ, T., & Wang, X. C. (2017, September). Kindergarteners' reading behaviors with multimodal digital texts and comprehension outcomes. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Tampere, Finland.;
- Christ, T., Wang, X. C., & Chiu, M. M. (2018, April). An exploratory study of app books’ affordances, reader processing and outcomes. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.;
- Strekalova-Hughes, E., Wang, X. C., & Lewman, K. (2018, April). Representation of refugee children in picture books: A qualitative content analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.;
- Wang, X. C. (2017, September). “Sometimes the Internet doesn't know everything”: Children’s epistemic reasoning in science inquiry. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Tampere, Finland.;
- Wang, X. C., & Strekalova-Hughes, E. (2017, September). Agency and voices of parents: Refugee families’ storytelling with young children. Paper presented at the annual meeting of European Early Childhood Educational Research Association, Bologna, Italy.;
- Wang, X. C., Christ, T., & Chiu, M. M. (2018, April). Exploring the Relationship between Kindergarteners’ Buddy Reading and Individual Comprehension of Digital Multimodal Text. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.;
- Cho, H., & Wang, X. C. (2017, April). An ethnographic case study of a bilingual child’s ethnic identity construction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Korean-American Educational Researcher Association, San Antonio, TX.;
- O’Connell, K., & Wang, X. C. (2017, April). A guided-exploration approach: A case study of a visual art teacher’s experience with preschoolers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.;
- Strekalova-Hughes, E. & Wang, X. C. (2017, April). Image of refugees in children’s literature: A content analysis. Paper presented at tge annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.;
- Wang, X. C., & Strekalova-Hughes, E. (2017, April). “I don’t want sad stories!”: Refugee families’ storytelling with young children. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.;
- Wang, X. C., Lin, B., Andrews, K., & Aoki, C. (2016, April). Exploring the relationship between young children’s theory of mind and their science inquiry. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC. Wang, X. C., & Christ, T. (2016, April). Young children's collaborative multimodal story-(re)telling on iPads. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC. Christ, T., & Wang, X. C. (2016, April). Kindergartener’s reading with multimodal digital texts: An analysis of patterns and texts affordances. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC. Andrews, K., & Wang, X. C. (2016, April). Young children's emergent science understanding in everyday family contexts: A case study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC. Strekalova-Hughes, E., & Wang, X. C. (2016, April). Storytelling in refugee families: Children's perception of (dis)connected home and school cultures. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Washington, DC. Wang, X. C. (2016, January). Explore young children’s engagement with multimodal text. Invited presentation at Shangdong Yingcai University, Jinan, China. Wang, X. C. (2016, January). Studying young children’s learning and development: Empirical research basics. Invited presentation at Shangdong Yingcai University, Jinan, China. Wang, X. C., & Christ, T. (2015, September). Reading through play: Kindergarteners’ buddy reading on iPads. Paper presented at the annual meeting of European Early Childhood Education Research Association, Barcelona, Spain. Christ, T., & Wang, X. C. (2015, September). Buddy reading multimodal ipad App books. Paper presented at the annual meeting of European Early Childhood Education Research Association, Barcelona, Spain. Christ, T., & Wang, X. C. (2015, July). Young children reading iPad app books together: Reading approaches, meaning making, and changes over time. Paper presented at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) Conference 2015, Gothenburg, Sweden. Christ, T., & Wang, X. C (2015, July). How emergent readers explore and develop skills and strategies for reading digital texts. Invited presentation at the annual meeting of International Reading Association, St. Louis, MO.;
- Christ, T., & Wang, X. C. (2015, April). Reading and meaning-construction approaches: Kindergartners’ Buddy Reading with ipad App Books. Paper presented at annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.;
- Wang, X. C. & Strekalova-Hughes, E. (2015, April). Exploring family storytelling with young children in refugee communities. Paper presented at annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.;
- Wang, X. C., & Christ, T. (2015, April). Hands-on and minds-on play: Kindergarteners’ buddy reading on iPads. Paper presented at annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.;
Activities:
Editorial and Review:
- (1)Editor in Chief: Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2017-2019 (2)Associate Editor: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2016-Present (3)Editorial Review Board: Early Child Development and Care, 2009-Present
06/01/2018-08/31/2021 - (1)Editor in Chief: Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2017-Present (2)Associate Editor: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2016-Present (3)Associate Editor: Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014-2016 (4)Editorial Review Board: Early Childhood Research and Practice, 2004-Present (5)Editorial Review Board: Childhood Education, 2004-Present
06/01/2016-05/31/2017 - Associate Editor for "Journal of Research in Childhood Education"
06/01/2015-05/31/2016 - Associate Editor for "Journal of Research in Childhood Education"
06/01/2014-05/31/2015
Professional Service:
- Executive Board, AERA-Early Education/Child Development SIG, Fall 2010-Present
06/01/2018-05/31/2019 - (1)Executive Board, AERA-Early Education/Child Development SIG, Fall 2010-Present (2)Advisory Board, Technology and Young Children Interest Forum, NAEYC, 2001-Present (3)AERA EE/CD SIG Conference Program Co-Chair: 2016, 2017
06/01/2016-05/31/2017 - Executive Board, AERA-Early Education/Child Development SIG, Fall 2010-Present
09/01/2015-09/01/2015 - Executive Committee, AERA Division C–Learning and Instruction, Aug 2012-June 2014
09/01/2015-09/01/2015 - Advisory Board, Technology and Young Children Interest Forum, NAEYC, 2001-Present
09/01/2015-09/01/2015