Queer theory: Under construction

Go Underground or in Your Face: Queer Students’ Negotiation of All-Girls Catholic Schools

“…However, the word has a negative connotation within schools (Dilley, 1999). According to Sears (1999), "Queering education happens when we look at schooling upside down and view childhood from the inside out" (p. 5).…”

“…Queer theory's main project is to question performances of normalcy, specifically in regard to gender and sexuality (Meyer, 2011). Moreover, Dilley (1999) defines queer theory as more than a counter ideology to heterosexuality or heteronormativity; Dilley calls it a yearning to understand single-sex experiences that are positioned "outside of the normal trope of daily life that affords perspectives apart from the norm" (p. 458). Furthermore, queer theory encompasses the "gamut of sexual diversities" (Honeychurch, 1996, p. 341) in its rejection of a sexual binary and interrogation of societal norms, desires, and behaviors that shape institutions and social relations.…”

“…When scholars apply queer theory to qualitative research, it creates new methods of analysis (Dilley, 1999). According to Dilley (1999), queer theory, when employed within qualitative research, has three tenets:…”

“…According to Dilley (1999), queer theory, when employed within qualitative research, has three tenets:…”

Guiding Principles for Developing Adaptive Software Products

“…Capturing organizational context subsequently captures meaning, a very important facet that actors need if they are to communicate. Context building amongst organizational actors is a process of weaving different situational understandings from different actors, of establishing threads of common understandings and the inter-subjective knowledge within the network 9Goldkuhl, 2002; Dilley, 1999). It must be noted that context is not a static thing.…”