DM Research

including 'learning to learn'). We see our students as adults who want to increase their potential for:


- seeing what the issues at stake are
- gaining a relevant knowledge base (e.g. by studying the literature available)
- thoroughly assessing the alternatives
- acting effectively and in an ethically correct way
- solving problems at hand
- foreseeing and planning new courses of action
- taking on responsibilities

The program's method is:


instrumental: It is first and foremost useful. reflective: It promotes critical thinking. participative: It involves students, instructors, and other staff members. networking: It includes the whole world. biographical: It draws from students' and instructors' real-life experiences. contextual: It sharpens students’ awareness of the creative and multidimensional interplay of the local and the global by using real-life cases as learning material. holistic: It is at the service of the development of the whole student.