Kathy A. Bobula, PH.D.
Kathy Bobula is a Professor of Early Childhood Education and Psychology at Clark College in Vancouver, WA, and began teaching there in 1982. From 1982 to 2006, Kathy coordinated the Department of Early Childhood Education. In addition to teaching at Clark, Kathy is an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Graduate Certificate Program in Infant/Toddler Mental Health at Portland State University, teaching Dynamic Theories of Infant/Toddler Development. She has been teaching about child development and working with young children and parents for over 40 years.
Kathy began studying about brain development in the mid-1980s, and has been teaching and conducting workshops about brain development ever since. Some of her most recent keynote addresses and workshops are now in article form on this web site. Titles of keynote addresses she has given most recently include:
• “Shall We Dance? The Social Brain” (2007)
• “Relationships: It's the Human Way” (2008)
• “Brain Science Meets Early Childhood Development-A Timely Convergence” (2009)
• “Self-Regulation and the Developing Brain” (2009)
• “This is Your Brain on Bias… or, the neuroscience of bias” (2011)
Kathy received the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Family and Child Development from Ohio State University in 1967 and 1969, respectively. She earned a Ph.D. in Urban Studies from Portland State University in 1996, with two field concentrations: Human Development and Policy Analysis. The title of her dissertation is: Characteristics of Administrators’ Leadership Style in Quality Child Care Centers.
Kathy’s work experience, in addition to college teaching, includes being a teacher-caregiver in both full and part-day early childhood programs with children from birth through six years of age. She has been a teacher of young children in Head Start, Early Head Start, two campus based programs, two parent cooperatives, and a Native American tribal preschool. Kathy has also administered three programs.
Updated July 1, 2011