Evidence-based learning.
Close-to-practice research.
Using the rich intellectual resources of the Barker College to facilitate learning and growth through the School and wider community.
Teaching for the Soul: Character in the Curriculum
Columnist David Brooks recently wrote in the New York Times that “Schools spend more time teaching professional knowledge than they do social and spiritual knowledge.”
- Philip Mundy
- 27 August 2025
Look Within, Go Beyond
The Process of Character & Enterprise Education at Barker
- Daniel Batchen
- 14 August 2025
Quietly Radical: The Power of Disciplinary Difference in Educational Research
Exploring the unexpected synergy of two disciplines in the pursuit of deeper educational insight.
- Dr Timothy Scott
- 23 July 2025
Avoiding and breaking free from tech-enabled addiction
Technology, particularly personal devices have created so many opportunities for connection, however they open the door to corporations and advertisers who are not acting in the interests of our children.
- Dr Matthew Hill
- 25 June 2025
Re-capturing HOPE in the real world
- Monday 8 September
- 7:00 - 8:00 PM
- Rhodes Theatre
Hope is in short supply in our culture at the moment. We all acknowledge that we need it, but what exactly is it and how can we nurture it?
Watoto Choir
- Wednesday 29 October
- 6:30 pm
- Barker College Chapel
The Watoto choir sing with beautiful voices but more importantly with an understanding of compassion, love, faith and hope.
Research Agenda 2024-2025
Our annually published document identifies high-level priority domains bringing together our rich intellectual resources to facilitate learning and growth throughout the school, and the local and global community.