Informed by the work of Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Amilcar Cabral and Grace Lee Boggs, this paper considers the role a journalism education rooted in the liberal arts can play in the age of climate change and COVID-19.By pursuing such an educational path, journalism students can acquire the requisite skills to thrive in a professional newsroom, while contributing to the sustainability of life on earth.The journalism classroom can become a place of imagination which militates against feelings of rumchata proof alienation.It can become a site of solidarity, compassion, and freedom dreams.It is in the classroom where journalism students can learn to iphone 14 price texas question fearlessly, listen deeply, and recognize the value of the stories and critiques of their classmates and instructors.
By employing a dialogical method of teaching committed to ending all forms of domination and grounding a pedagogy of care, a classroom ethos can be cultivated that will affirm and restore the humanity of students wounded by the ravages of a global pandemic and change a world in peril.