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A Blissful Education

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A personal reflection from a student of Dr. Sipe showcases the power and humanity of his conversational prowess. In this reflection, a developing discussion with Dr. Sipe around Cynthia Rylant’s Missing May (1992) is connected to Roland Barthes’s concept of jouissance.

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  1. Reading/Writing/Literacy, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, 3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    David Low

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David Low is a PhD student at The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. He has a particular focus on adolescent literacies, and the ways that multimodal reading and composing—primarily via the medium of comics and various sites of online media production—enable youths’ meaning making and storytelling practices. Before attending Penn, David earned degrees from The University of Arizona and New York University, taught 10th and 11th grade English Language Arts in Tucson, and self-published a collection of single-panel cartoons.

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Low, D. A Blissful Education. Child Lit Educ 43, 48–50 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-011-9150-3

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