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Discussion and Reflections

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The Gülen Movement

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This chapter discusses all the research findings; highlights their implications for research and practice; makes recommendations for future researchers on social movements, adult educators, and adult education; explains limitations of the study; and offers suggestions for future research. The research reaffirms that adult education has a significant function in social movements to cause a transformation in the followers, which then leads to wider social change. It concludes that the Gülen Movement is a religious social movement that employs adult education through the sohbets attended by businessmen who eventually experience transformations in their lives and in turn at societal level. Furthermore, a second conclusion based on the findings is that the Gülen Movement employs a significantly different form of adult education that is not common in social movements.

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Cıngıllıoğlu, S. (2017). Discussion and Reflections. In: The Gülen Movement. Middle East Today. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50505-3_7

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