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SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: Educational experts have examined the importance of incorporating art and aesthetics into education. They argue that despite the well-documented benefits of art in achieving educational objectives across intellectual, emotional, religious, and ethical domains, its integration into educational settings remains incomplete.  There is a need for extensive research on the effectiveness of artistic and aesthetic approaches in various educational curricula, including medical and higher education. In this regard, the present study aimed to investigate the impact of engagement with art and aesthetics on the intellectual, emotional, religious, and ethical education of artists’ lived experiences.METHOD & FINDING: The current research utilized a qualitative and phenomenological approach, focusing on diverse artists representing various art forms. The participants in this qualitative and phenomenological study were 19 artists from different fields of art in Kerman, a province of Iran, who were chosen via purposive sampling. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed with MAXQDA software (version 2021), using Colaizzi’s seven-step method. Artists’ experiences demonstrate that engagement with art and beauty triggers significant transformations in various aspects of life, influencing habits, preferences, modes of expression, and even appearance.  The study shows that education involving art and beauty encourages reflection, thinking, understanding, and hands-on learning. CONCLUSION: Special attention should be paid to the relationship between art and beauty and its influence on formal and informal education. Moreover, the principles of aesthetics should be taken into consideration in curriculum planning and teaching, and classroom methods.

Les diverses recherches effectuées sous l’étiquette de féminisme dans différents domaines d’étude, ayant un dénominateur commun, à savoir, la femme, sont fondées sur l'affirmation que les structures sociales et culturelles de tous les pays ont toujours opprimé les femmes physiquement, économiquement et mentalement et sur la conviction qu'il faut mettre un terme à une telle oppression. Or, ce label de féminisme donne lieu souvent à des divergences d’interprétation entre les personnes qui l’emploient. Le quiproquo se multiplie avec les termes «au féminin», «féminin» et «de femme», utilisés de nos jours dans de nombreuses expressions telles que «critique littéraire féminine/féministe» ou «éthique féminine/féministe», «littérature de femme/au féminin/ féminine/féministe» pour n’en citer que quelques exemples restreints. Quelle en est la différence? Toute qualification ‘féminine’ est forcément ‘féministe’ ou vice versa? Cet article se propose, dans une perspective généalogique et rétrospective, de cerner les contours et les évolutions de la pensée féministe, les orientations et les sensibilités qui en découlent. Pour ce faire, il faut savoir de prime abord de quoi se soucie le féminisme dans les différentes périodes de son cheminement, pour pouvoir ensuite déceler son évolution historique et théorique. Ce recul destiné à une clarification conceptuelle de la notion de recherche féministe s’avère nécessaire dans la mesure où il nous permettra de voir la manière dont les études féministes se sont construites en France; un champ d’études interdisciplinaire en sciences humaines, toujours en pleine essor.

Given the unquestionable significance of academic discourse in knowledge sharing, the present study investigates research articles published in high-ranked journals in two disciplines of Applied Linguistics and Medical Sciences. Considering the fact that abstract sections in a research article are factual representations of the details of the paper, they are of great importance. Moreover, academic writers attempt to publish more valued and engaging articles using numerous writing norms, a well-known way of which is Nominalization. The study follows genre analysis design and includes a corpus of 30 research articles in Applied Linguistics and 30 articles in medical sciences, half by natives and half by non-natives published between 2015 and 2024. Meticulous analysis and article-to-article comparison indicated higher frequency of verbal nominalization in all sets of articles and no statistically significant difference between native and non-native academic writers in both fields. However, there was a considerable difference between the deployment of nominalization between the academic writers in applied linguistics and medical sciences, the former outperforming the latter group. It is believed that the results of this study will help English for Specific- and for Academic Purposes practitioners in the inclusion of more writing instruction practices in their curriculum.