The explanatory power of sensory reading for early childhood research: The role of hidden senses

Sensory reading refers to that engages all six of the human senses – vison, hearing, touch, gustation, olfaction and proprioception. The author proposes increased attention be paid three ‘hidden’ proprioception advance innovative studies. She articulates problematic visually dominated multimodal research print–digital media comparison studies, extends field sensory is not tied a specific medium or mode engagement but mediated by individualised stimuli. This cross-disciplinary discussion opens up new vista for affective literacies integrates tensions emerge between psychological studies concerned with material, ephemeral embodied reading. approach refines Rosenblatt's transaction theory contributes insights into materiality, ephemerality embodiment reading, which dominate contemporary