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GawainIn Arthurian legend, one of the knights of the Round Table who participated in the quest for the Holy Grail. He is the hero of the 14th-century epic poem Sir Gawayne and the Greene Knight.
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The face-to-face group emphasized the learning community and clearly operated from a social constructivist view (Barron, 2000; Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt, 1997; Gauvain, 2001), whereas the online learners emphasized the individualist cognitive perspective and the self-regulation aspects of the experience (Pintrich, 2000; Schunk & Zimmerman, 1994). However, like Gauvain of the remaining part of the romance, who ended up confined in the Castle of Marvels, Chretien's Perceval symbolically chose to remain locked in the Red Knight's armour he craved at the beginning of his adventures, shut in a limiting vision of chivalry that he had never been able to transcend. An earlier study by Gauvain and Rogoff, 1989, had shown the power of what they called "shared task responsibility, sharing decision-making, examining possibilities and explaining thinking". |
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