Kelly's 1955 book has much wry commentary of all the philosophical positions attributed to him, and is freely available in searchable PDF form on the web so you can find the material easily. Of course, he was pre most of the "post" terminology so Husserlian phenomenology and Deweyian pragmatism come closest at that time.
The Dewey link is important because all K's philosophy comes directly from Dewey. Kelly is important as a minimalist who cut Dewey's instrumentalist, constructivist position to a few essential features and built a complete psychology/sociology from it. So wherever you place Dewey on your constructs you likely should also place Kelly.
Margolis' recent book on Pragmatism's Advantage, Sanford UP, 2010, is excellent in situating Dewey as a bridge between analytic and continental philosophy, and Kelly parallels Dewey in this.
Cleo Cherryholmes' paper on "Pragmatism, poststructuralism and socially useful theorizing" in Curriculm Inquiry 24(2) 1994, has some commentary which might also be very useful to you.
I am attaching a short note I wrote recently for Fay Fransella's newsletter on PCP which might have some useful comments and refs, best wishes,
Brain R Gains - Personal Correspondence
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