Etymology

deuterolearning

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Today it means: Second-order learning; learning how to learn. Full definition →

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The story

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.