

Jean Claude Kwitonda, PhD
Assistant Professor
jeanclaude.kwitonda@howard.edu
Jean Claude Kwitonda has diverse experiences working as copywriter, researcher, translator and a college teacher. Prior to joining Howard University, he taught in different universities in Rwanda and Ohio. His teaching and research interests include Health Communication, Communication for Development and instructional communication.
Research Interests
Health communication, communication for development and instructional communication.
Selected Creative and Published Works
Kwitonda, J.C, & Singhal, A. (2018). Teaching and learning about positive deviance: Boosting metacognitions to grasp global communication theory and practice. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 47(5), 382-391. doi:10.1080/17475759.2018.1475295
Kwitonda, J.C. (2017). Foundational aspects of classroom relations: Associations between teachers’ immediacy behaviors, classroom democracy, class identification and learning. Learning Environments Research an International Journal, 20(3), 383-401. doi:10.1007/s10984-017-9231-3.
Kwitonda, J. C. (2016). Development aid and disease discourse on display: The mutating techniques of neoliberalism. Critical Discourse Studies, 14(1), 23-38. doi:10.1080/17405904.2016.1174139.
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