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

# Teaching the Systems Rule

van Dongen, 2025, 21st Century Economics — Education

Patterns: [Systems](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/systems)

## In short

Van Dongen translates the DSRP Systems pattern into teaching practice through the part-whole rule and the associated zoom-in and zoom-out moves.

## What they found (results)

The sequence starts with tangible objects like a bicycle, practices zooming in and out, then moves to intangibles such as fairness and trust before reaching economic ideas like household and income.

## What they set out to do (purpose)

A classroom-methods post on teaching the Systems rule — that every whole has parts and every part can be treated as a whole.

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

[Source](https://www.21steconomics.org/teaching-the-systems-rule/)