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# On teaching relationships

## Details

**Authors** van Dongen

**Year** 2025

**Publisher** 21st Century Economics

**Kind of work** article

**Discipline** Education

**Kind of engagement** applications

[Read it](https://www.21steconomics.org/on-teaching-relationships/)

## In authors' words

### What they set out to do (purpose)

A classroom-methods post on why the Relationships rule needs a pedagogy of its own.

### What they found (results)

Relationships reach well beyond cause and effect — any situation where one thing borrows part of its identity from another is a relationship — and the post offers exercises for surfacing the non-causal kinds.

## Commentary

### In short

Van Dongen extends and pedagogically interprets the DSRP Relationship pattern by distinguishing contingent, existential, social/legal, hierarchical, grouping, comparative, causal, dynamic, and interactional relationships.

**Patterns it shows** R

**Added** 2026-08-14

**How to cite this** van Dongen (2025). On teaching relationships. 21st Century Economics.