Critical Pedagogy in Digital Era: Understanding the Importance of Arts & Humanities for Sustainable IT Development

Abstract

The paper defines the critical pedagogy as the root cause of a cross-disciplinary method of delivery of teaching and research in Higher Education. The paper explicates the lexicographical meaning of the term ‘critical’ in the research context of Arts and Humanities, its conceptual and para-conceptual paradigms that urges us to intersect the specific areas of Information Technology and vice-versa. The premise of the paper is that the IT does not take over Arts and Humanities, rather Arts and Humanities helps the IT make a better society of human civilization where the machine and human co-exists; and understand (we used the word for the machine deliberately) the valued existence of each other. The development of IT without aesthetics of human existence results irrecoverable disaster. The history states so. The development of IT under the shadow of Arts and Humanities results enrichment of both the unending development of IT and the human society to a progressive and sustainable direction. Critical Pedagogy is defined in terms of the development of transdisciplinary education and research intersected with digital studies.