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
Round Square and Character Education at Barker
Barker College is a part of a global community called Round Square—an international association of over 270 schools from 50 countries which connect and collaborate to offer world-class programs and experiences.
- Samantha Blood
- 23 June 2025
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.