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GawainKnight of King Arthur's Round Table. A nephew of Arthur, he appears in early Arthurian legend as a model of perfection. In later romances, his character is marred by arrogance and by an inability to perceive the significance of the grail. In the 14th-century Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, he accepted a challenge from a mysterious Green Knight, who offered to let Gawain chop off his head if he could return the blow one year later. When the blow was struck, the Knight picked up his head and left the court, and Gawain set out in search of him. After passing through a series of temptations, Gawain met the Green Knight's blows and suffered only a small wound, his neck protected by a magical green sash. Gawain bravery in the Castle of Wonders. [Arth. Legend: Parsival] See : Bravery How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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