Olfactoscapes in Malawi: Exploring the smells children like and are exposed to in semi-urban classrooms

Moving beyond the “canned” lens on literacies dominant in contemporary literacy studies Malawi, this study connects theoretical perspectives sensory and critical to original empirical data children’s lived “olfactory literacies”. We focus situational locally experienced odours two classrooms semi-urban Malawi. present findings from interviews drawings with 25 children who shared their olfactory preferences local researcher. Children’s views were supplemented researcher’s teachers’ evaluations of qualities classroom environments. Our advances field by being first unite provocations global child research insights into olfactoscapes.