deuterolearning
nounEtymology Coined by English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, from deutero- (“secondary”) + learning.
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Second-order learning; learning how to learn.
- The implications of deuterolearning take us into an anthropology that is wonderfully open.2008, Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, Jeanette Dickerson-Putman, editors, Pulling the Right Threads: The Ethnographic Life and Legacy of Jane C. Goodale, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 111:
- Deuterolearning implies becoming aware of how organizations single- and double-loop learn—that is, “learning how to learn.”2017, Moisés J. Schwartz, Ray C. Rist, The International Monetary Fund and the Learning Organization: The Role of Independent Evaluation, International Monetary Fund, →ISBN, page 70: