Moshe Krakowski MPES Cohort 1, Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences Annenberg Hall Room 318 2120 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-0001 Phone: (847) 467-3871

Moshe Krakowski has a BA in philosophy from the University of Chicago and is currently in his third year as PhD candidate in the department of Learning Sciences. He has a strong interest in ultra-Orthodox Jewish education and is in the process of developing a research program that investigates the nature of elementary schooling in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. He is examining how secular knowledge is presented in a curriculum that devotes the overwhelming majority of the day to religious knowledge. He is also looking at how successful schools are at teaching secular knowledge in such an environment. He hopes that this course of research will be more generally interesting in the way that it sheds light on how subcultures that have radically different epistemologies than the dominant culture interact with that dominant culture.

Moshe's other graduate work involves Bruce Sherin’s conceptual dynamics project. This work is an effort to understand what it is that kids learn when they are engaged in science classes. In particular, it is looking at the ways in which the learning is different in traditional and project-based science curricula.

Year		Degree		Institution
2008		PhD, Learning Sciences Learning Sciences		Northwestern University

Year	Title
2008	Isolation and Integration: Education and Worldview Formation in Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Schools