Reigniting Purpose in the Classroom
A Teacher’s Journey in Character Education
- Emma Scarlis
- 03 September 2025
Learning and Belonging: Lessons from Teaching History at Marri Mittigar
Over the past year I have had the privilege of teaching History at Marri Mittigar, Barker’s school-within-a-school for students from a refugee background. This experience has been one of the most rewarding of my career, offering profound lessons not only about History as a subject but also about the role of education in building belonging, resilience, and hope.
- Dr Timothy Scott
- 29 August 2025
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
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.