Hizmet Movement, A Lived Experience, and Introspections on Pedagogy
This book reflects the lived experience of the author from a phenomenological viewpoint of the Turkey-based educational movement, Hizmet Movement (HM), in addition to Gülen’s life, a short history of the Turkish Republic, Gülenian philosophy on education from his lens.
Dr. Koray Lynx (formerly Yusuf İncetaş) was born into a Turkish Gastarbeiter family in Germany. He started elementary school there, but later finished his secondary and college education in Turkey. He lived and worked in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, and the United States. After serving in the U.S. Army, he worked as a certified public-school teacher in Illinois, taught English as a second language at Harvard University, and pursued a career as a Turkish language instructor at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. He is currently Chair of the Teacher Preparation Program at Heritage University in Toppenish, Washington, the only higher education institution founded on Yakama Nation land. He has a PhD in secondary and continuing education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is married to David Lynx, and has two cats; Groot, a Zen master, and Leyla, a drama queen.