deuterolearning

noun

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from *liʀnungu — “learning
  2. inherited from leornung — “learning, study
  3. inherited from lernyng
  4. formed as deuterolearning — “deutero- + learning

Definitions

  1. Second-order learning

    Second-order learning; learning how to learn.

    • The implications of deuterolearning take us into an anthropology that is wonderfully open.
    • Deuterolearning implies becoming aware of how organizations single- and double-loop learn—that is, “learning how to learn.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for deuterolearning. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA