ABSTRACT

In his recent analysis on education, Zygmun Bauman focused on the three types of learning identified by Mead (1964). Learning, in this analysis, divides into three linked but distinct types. There is the primary learning: ‘first-degree learning’ – the subterranean process of ‘learning to learn’; ‘first-degree learning of content learning’ – the formal curriculum, so to speak. But there is also deutero – what we might call ‘secondary learning’ – the subterranean process of learning to learn.