From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peer-mediated instruction (PMI) is an approach in special education where peers of the target students are trained to provide necessary tutoring in educational, behavioral, and/or social concerns.(Chan et al., 2009).
Cultural embeddedness refers to âthe role of shared collective understandings in shaping economic strategies and goalsâ (17). Structural embeddedness is defined, following Granovetter, as âthe contextualization of economic exchange in patterns of ongoing interpersonal rela- tionsâ (18).
In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word lÄ«men, meaning a threshold) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the ritual is complete.