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# Teaching for Thinking and Reflection with DSRP

## Details

**Authors** van Dongen

**Year** 2026

**Publisher** 21st Century Economics (curriculum project)

**Kind of work** article

**Discipline** Education

**Kind of engagement** applications

[Read it](https://www.21steconomics.org/teaching-for-thinking-and-reflection-with-dsrp/)

## In authors' words

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

A curriculum-design post on using DSRP to teach economics, walking one labor-market example through each of the four patterns.

### What they found (results)

Produces classroom sequences - the labor market worked through all four patterns - that replace memorization with structure the students construct through inquiry.

## Commentary

### In short

Builds DSRP into a secondary and college economics curriculum as the pedagogical spine, with a companion series of posts on teaching each individual rule.

**Patterns it shows** D, S, R, P

**Added** 2026-08-16

**How to cite this** van Dongen (2026). Teaching for Thinking and Reflection with DSRP. 21st Century Economics (curriculum project).