Meanings
- uncountableSecond-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 1111 more example
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
Coined by English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, from deutero- (“secondary”) + learning.
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