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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Second-order learning; learning how to learn. uncountable

   "The implications of deuterolearning take us into an anthropology that is wonderfully open."

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"The implications of deuterolearning take us into an anthropology that is wonderfully open."

Etymology

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

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