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deuterolearning

deuterolearning noun: second-order learning; learning how to learn.

Noun

deuterolearning (uncountable)

  1. 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

Origin of deuterolearning

Coined by English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, from deutero- (“secondary”) + learning.

Questions about deuterolearning

What does deuterolearning mean?
Deuterolearning means second-order learning; learning how to learn.
What part of speech is deuterolearning?
Deuterolearning is a noun.

Words near deuterolearning in the dictionary

  1. deuteroformaldehyde
  2. deuterogamist
  3. deuterogamists
  4. deuterogamy
  5. deuterogenic
  6. deuterolearning
  7. deuterolysin
  8. deuterolysins
  9. deuteromycete
  10. deuteromycetes
  11. deuteron

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