deuterolearning · noun — second-order learning; learning how to learn. It carries an Arena rating of 1334, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
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Why “deuterolearning” is a great word
Deuterolearning is the acquired skill of learning how to learn, a higher-order process of calibrating one's own cognitive machinery. From the Greek prefix deutero- ("second, secondary") + the English word learning, coined by English anthropologist and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson. Unlike "metacognition" (which is the awareness of one's own thinking) or "rote learning" (which is the sterile accumulation of facts), deuterolearning is the adaptive, often tacit, practice of becoming a more effective learner. It is the pianist internalizing principles of practice beyond a single sonata, the scientist discovering a new method of inquiry, or the child intuiting that a question can be more powerful than an answer—the quiet mastery of the map, not the territory.
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Etymology
Coined by English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, from deutero- (“secondary”) + learning.
noun
- Second-order learning; learning how to learn.e.g.“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:
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