[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# On teaching relationships

van Dongen, 2025, 21st Century Economics — Education

Patterns: [Relationships](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/relationships)

## 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.

## 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.

## What they set out to do (purpose)

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

These researchers were not testing DSRP. The finding is theirs; the correspondence to DSRP is drawn by this site.

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