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China is fast becoming a coveted destination and a hub for higher education among international students, particularly since the announcement of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in September 2013. Consequently, China’s higher-education institutions are seeking ways to make international students’ educational experience more consistent with their expectations. Nonetheless, instructional communication—that is, communication for the purpose of engaging students academically while reducing problematic misunderstandings in the classroom—is a bane of the educational experience of international students in China. Therefore, this article extends instructional communication and intercultural sensitivity models to pedagogical, learner-centered contexts in an attempt to develop an integrated conceptual framework on sustaining international student–Chinese faculty interactions in the classroom. That framework has three key constructs: (a) the faculty’s classroom behaviors and international students’ characteristics, (b) international students’ instructional beliefs, and (c) learning outcomes. They will serve as the basis for positioning instructional practices in responding more appropriately to enhancing the experience of international students as global learners and toward deepening and sustaining the internationalization of China’s higher-education institutions, specifically within the context of BRI.
Nadeem Akhtar; Cornelius B. Pratt; Ying Hu. Sustainability of the Belt and Road Initiative: An Integrated, Conceptual Framework for Instructional Communication in China’s Universities. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6789 .
AMA StyleNadeem Akhtar, Cornelius B. Pratt, Ying Hu. Sustainability of the Belt and Road Initiative: An Integrated, Conceptual Framework for Instructional Communication in China’s Universities. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (23):6789.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNadeem Akhtar; Cornelius B. Pratt; Ying Hu. 2019. "Sustainability of the Belt and Road Initiative: An Integrated, Conceptual Framework for Instructional Communication in China’s Universities." Sustainability 11, no. 23: 6789.
This study investigates how Western news media (The New York Times and BBC News) and Islamic news media (Al-Jazeera English and Al-Arabiya English) frame issues about freedom of expression and anti-Islamic sentiments, respectively, in the aftermath of the January 7, 2015, attacks on France’s weekly satirical newsmagazine, Charlie Hebdo. Results show a deep divide: that the Western news media, on the one hand, endorsed Charlie Hebdo’s right to offend religious sensitivities and lauded its role to protect the Western value of free speech; and that the Islamic news media, on the other, viewed the entire Western discourses as anti-Islam and anti-Muslim, emphasizing the need for good taste and professionalism in journalism.
Muhammad Khalil Khan; Fei Wu; Cornelius B. Pratt; Nadeem Akhtar. Satires, narratives and journalistic divides: Discourses on free speech in Western and Islamic news media. The Social Science Journal 2019, 1 -19.
AMA StyleMuhammad Khalil Khan, Fei Wu, Cornelius B. Pratt, Nadeem Akhtar. Satires, narratives and journalistic divides: Discourses on free speech in Western and Islamic news media. The Social Science Journal. 2019; ():1-19.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMuhammad Khalil Khan; Fei Wu; Cornelius B. Pratt; Nadeem Akhtar. 2019. "Satires, narratives and journalistic divides: Discourses on free speech in Western and Islamic news media." The Social Science Journal , no. : 1-19.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a cornucopia of international projects that offer mammoth opportunities for more economic cooperation and deeper regional integration primarily among emerging economies. BRI is providing new drivers of sustainable economic growth in China and of cross-border trade, along with the reimagined land and “Maritime Silk Road”. The initiative focuses on restoring global balance and on expanding universally beneficial and inclusive relationships. This article argues that the forces of globalization are so pivotal to Eurasia, where development opportunities can propel the region toward a more comprehensive socioeconomic integration, that governments in that region need to provide more support that ensures the continuing success of BRI. In essence, BRI is a critical tool for peaceful development that is resulting in massive investments in infrastructure, that is facilitating economic development, and that is promoting shared governance. This article provides theoretical perspectives on BRI as a beachhead for sustainable regional development. It also highlights BRI programs and projects that have emerged as an internal and external policy framework for an openly inclusive “win–win” cooperation model based on shared development and on communities of shared interests.
Muhammad Khalil Khan; Imran Ali Sandano; Cornelius B. Pratt; Tahir Farid. China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Global Model for an Evolving Approach to Sustainable Regional Development. Sustainability 2018, 10, 4234 .
AMA StyleMuhammad Khalil Khan, Imran Ali Sandano, Cornelius B. Pratt, Tahir Farid. China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Global Model for an Evolving Approach to Sustainable Regional Development. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (11):4234.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMuhammad Khalil Khan; Imran Ali Sandano; Cornelius B. Pratt; Tahir Farid. 2018. "China’s Belt and Road Initiative: A Global Model for an Evolving Approach to Sustainable Regional Development." Sustainability 10, no. 11: 4234.
Ying Hu; Cornelius B. Pratt. Grounding civic engagement in strategic communication for China’s public-health programs: Air-quality campaigns as a case study. Public Relations Review 2017, 43, 461 -467.
AMA StyleYing Hu, Cornelius B. Pratt. Grounding civic engagement in strategic communication for China’s public-health programs: Air-quality campaigns as a case study. Public Relations Review. 2017; 43 (3):461-467.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYing Hu; Cornelius B. Pratt. 2017. "Grounding civic engagement in strategic communication for China’s public-health programs: Air-quality campaigns as a case study." Public Relations Review 43, no. 3: 461-467.
This article departs from the dominant orthodoxies in discourses on communication and development by introducing, as a major cultural shift, theory-guided strategic communication themes in two complementary sectors of Nigeria’s financial industry: banking and microfinance. In both sectors, the personal influence model and relationship marketing provide the overarching theoretical framework for investigating the immanence (or lack thereof) of three key variables in the relationships of those sectors with their primary stakeholders, for the primary purpose of entrepreneurial development and poverty reduction. Those variables – trust, commitment and satisfaction – are subsumed under ‘relationship quality’, an embodiment of culture as an integral part of the impact of microfinance on Nigeria’s economy. This article adopts a development strategy that focuses exclusively on relationships established and sustained in exchanges between nonpublic organisations (i.e., the banking and microfinance industries) and key stakeholders for the primary purpose of entrepreneurial development fueled by a cultural economy that ensures the production and wide distribution of finished products, not necessarily commodities. Thematic discourses that use theories to guide institutional policies and actions are proffered in an attempt to create stronger institutional bonds between banking and microfinance institutions and their disparate stakeholders.
Ying Hu; Cornelius B. Pratt; Wole Adamolekun; Adekunle R. Ogedengbe. ‘Communicating development’ – a cultural shift: emerging discourses on entrepreneurial development and poverty reduction by Nigeria’s banking and microfinance sectors. Critical Arts 2016, 30, 709 -727.
AMA StyleYing Hu, Cornelius B. Pratt, Wole Adamolekun, Adekunle R. Ogedengbe. ‘Communicating development’ – a cultural shift: emerging discourses on entrepreneurial development and poverty reduction by Nigeria’s banking and microfinance sectors. Critical Arts. 2016; 30 (5):709-727.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYing Hu; Cornelius B. Pratt; Wole Adamolekun; Adekunle R. Ogedengbe. 2016. "‘Communicating development’ – a cultural shift: emerging discourses on entrepreneurial development and poverty reduction by Nigeria’s banking and microfinance sectors." Critical Arts 30, no. 5: 709-727.
Nadeem Akhtar; Cornelius B. Pratt. Pakistani Government–News Media Relationships. Journalism Studies 2016, 18, 65 -85.
AMA StyleNadeem Akhtar, Cornelius B. Pratt. Pakistani Government–News Media Relationships. Journalism Studies. 2016; 18 (1):65-85.
Chicago/Turabian StyleNadeem Akhtar; Cornelius B. Pratt. 2016. "Pakistani Government–News Media Relationships." Journalism Studies 18, no. 1: 65-85.
This chapter identifies a missing element in the application of dominant health communication theories to health campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa. That element, the failure to empower Africa’s urban communities to engage in symmetrical communication, is grounded in argumentation and negotiation on health decisions that affect them. Therefore, it argues that Africa’s urban residents, particularly parents of and care-givers to malnourished children, take full advantage of the minuscule health resources at their disposal by applying a communicatively rational process to negotiate three universal, criticizable validity claims: propositional truth, normative rightness, and subjective truthfulness or authenticity under conditions of speech. Thus, in every aspect of engaging in a communicative interaction for accessing the full panoply of health services, even in their inadequacy, African communities are encouraged to accept, challenge, refute, deliberate, discuss, or reject the bases of ideal speech acts and symmetry conditions. All of those possible outcomes emphasize full community participation as the desideratum of making significant contributions to determining key health issues and to identifying program responses to them. In essence, then, this chapter provides a theory-grounded field guide that can enhance the delivery of health services in Africa’s urban communities, which, for the most part, are the epicenters of significant health disparities, particularly in child malnutrition.
Cornelius B. Pratt. Beyond Thinking and Planning Strategically to Improve Urban Residents’ Health. Strategic Urban Health Communication 2013, 131 -141.
AMA StyleCornelius B. Pratt. Beyond Thinking and Planning Strategically to Improve Urban Residents’ Health. Strategic Urban Health Communication. 2013; ():131-141.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCornelius B. Pratt. 2013. "Beyond Thinking and Planning Strategically to Improve Urban Residents’ Health." Strategic Urban Health Communication , no. : 131-141.
Cornelius B. Pratt; Wole Adamolekun. An Ethical-Theory-Based Analysis of the Social Responsibilities of Three Global Corporations: ExxonMobil, Shell and Pfizer. Ethical Issues in International Communication 2011, 154 -171.
AMA StyleCornelius B. Pratt, Wole Adamolekun. An Ethical-Theory-Based Analysis of the Social Responsibilities of Three Global Corporations: ExxonMobil, Shell and Pfizer. Ethical Issues in International Communication. 2011; ():154-171.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCornelius B. Pratt; Wole Adamolekun. 2011. "An Ethical-Theory-Based Analysis of the Social Responsibilities of Three Global Corporations: ExxonMobil, Shell and Pfizer." Ethical Issues in International Communication , no. : 154-171.
The objectives of this article are to (a) present a theoretical framework for developing strategies and tactics that could be used to mobilize and empower African communities and help reduce the crippling burdens of public-health challenges, even as these societies suffer from the effects of wars and conflicts; (b) highlight reasons for mobilizing and empowering communities as strategic responses to the effects of internal armed conflicts on the delivery of health services, and, in turn, on a nation's health; and (c) recommend communication strategies and tactics for improving the health of Africa's populations both in peacetime and in wartime. The article draws upon two models—the health belief model and the community mobilization model—that are described as war- and conflict-victim mobilizing and empowerment models, which can be used to communicate with and to motivate and inspire victims of African's wars. These models are applied in a case study of two Netherlands-based international development and co-financing agencies, Cordaid and the Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation. The article concludes with suggestions for theory-driven empirical research on the interface between public trust and health delivery.
Cornelius B. Pratt; E. Lincoln James. Mobilizing and Empowering War-Torn African Communities to Improve Public Health. Howard Journal of Communications 2009, 20, 370 -393.
AMA StyleCornelius B. Pratt, E. Lincoln James. Mobilizing and Empowering War-Torn African Communities to Improve Public Health. Howard Journal of Communications. 2009; 20 (4):370-393.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCornelius B. Pratt; E. Lincoln James. 2009. "Mobilizing and Empowering War-Torn African Communities to Improve Public Health." Howard Journal of Communications 20, no. 4: 370-393.
This article argues that the personal influence model (PIM) be used strategically to resolve conflicts and social crises in Africa. It presents PIM as a complementary, analytic discourse to participatory communication, a development paradigm commonly used globally in a variety of social programs. That discourse, as a framework for theory building, is grounded in Africa's emerging and enduring realities: (a) the growing interest of the international community to assist Africa to meet the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, whose focus is to reduce extreme poverty by 2015; (b) the ephemeral nature of Africa's political and social stability that necessitates reducing fear, improving community security, nurturing public trust, and building inter-group relationships, all as preconditions for attaining social development, and for using a community-agency- contracts-partnerships approach to deliver development services; and (c) the palpable congruence of PIM with Africa's extensive social networks, which are typically used as communication tools for social development. Those realities guide four propositions that serve as a heuristic template for testing and refining the participatory approach, thereby guiding theory building in participatory communication in African communities. That template identifies an expansive three-concept research agenda – culture, community governance and rule of law, and economic freedom – that raises questions, defines concepts, measures key variables, and assesses outcomes.
Cornelius B Pratt. Using the personal influence model to guide theory building for participatory communication in Africa. Communicatio 2009, 35, 30 -49.
AMA StyleCornelius B Pratt. Using the personal influence model to guide theory building for participatory communication in Africa. Communicatio. 2009; 35 (1):30-49.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCornelius B Pratt. 2009. "Using the personal influence model to guide theory building for participatory communication in Africa." Communicatio 35, no. 1: 30-49.