ABSTRACT
The term ‘collective learning’ is used in this chapter simply as a means of grouping together a range of conceptualisations such as organisational learning, social learning and network learning. What these are taken to have in common is that, for all of them, learning is said to occur at some level above and beyond the individual person. Whether this is a literal possibility, or whether only an individual can learn and therefore conceptions of collective learning are necessarily either metaphorical or reducible, is a question that we shall leave for others to explore.
