George Herbert Mead comes to mind when Schutz herself posits that we objectify ourselves and as Cate McQuaid (Boston Globe, 2006) observes this makes for the self, raising delicious questions about identity.
In Social Interactionism, it is through participation in the social act of communication that the individual realizes their potential for significantly symbolic behavior. Action is very important to our constructions of self. The self arises when the individual becomes an object to themselves. Mead argued that we are objects first to other people, and secondarily we become objects to ourselves by taking the perspective of other people. In joint activity, which Mead called 'social acts', humans learn to see themselves from the standpoint of their co-actors. It is through realizing ones role in relation to others that selfhood arises.
Are these elementary school children trying to understand their gender role behaviors as well as gendered identity via these acts? Their introspective looks (of curiosity -- rather than being void of emotions).
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