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).
Intentionality is the power of minds to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs. The puzzles of intentionality lie at the interface between the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. The word itself, which is of medieval Scholastic origin, was rehabilitated by the philosopher Franz Brentano towards the end of the nineteenth century. âIntentionalityâ is a philosopher's word.