A volume in Advances in Cultural PsychologySeries Editor: Jaan Valsiner, Clark UniversityThis book brings to cultural psychology the focus on phenomenology of everyday life. Whetherit is in the context of education, work, or exploration of life environments, the chapters in thisbook converge on the need to give attention to complex realities of everyday living. Thus, adescription of pre-school organization in Japan would be in its form very different from schoolorganization in Britain or Colombia-yet the realities of human beings acting in social roles arecontinuous around the world.