Milda Bredikyte has been a senior researcher and associate professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania since 2018. She teaches child development and narrative learning in play and the Vygotskian theory of cultural development in childhood, and is the senior researcher and coordinator of research activities at VMU’s research laboratory of play. Bredikyte worked at Kajaani University Consortium, University of Oulu, Finland, from 2002–2010, and she has also been responsible for research activities at the research laboratory Play Lab “Silmu”. She is a co-creator, with Pentti Hakkarainen, of the developmental play program in early childhood, Narrative Play and Learning Environments (2017). Bredikyte’s research interests include the cultural development of the child, the impact of creative activities on child development, and the role of imagination in play.
