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The visual arts plantIngram, Robin January 1986 (has links)
The Art Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is based in the leased space of the Armory and in the basement of Owens Hall. The Art Department also holds classes in as many as four other buildings on campus. My proposal is to consolidate the Art Department’s activities into one formal building. I call this building The Visual Arts Plant. The Visual Arts Plant contains the rooms, equipment, machinery, tools, instruments, and fixtures necessary to facilitate and promote a visual arts education. This thesis is a documentation of my ideas for The Visual Arts Plants. / Master of Architecture
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A follow-up study of graduates, post graduates and those qualified to teach by taking certain classes in agricultural education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute since 1918Pulley, Mason H. January 1940 (has links)
In this thesis the author has conscientiously attempted to portray in clear fashion the status of all V.P.I. graduates, post graduates, and those qualified to teach in vocational agriculture since 1918.
The material collected, it is hoped, will serve as a source of information for professors at V.P.I. who have to do with guidance and placement. Furthermore, it is expected that the information contained herein, will show certain pertinent facts concerning the department of vocational education in question.
Is the department efficient? Do its graduates secure jobs? Are salaries commensurate with time spent in securing degrees? Does the higher degree have any significance so far as increase in salary or steps in advancement are concerned? Have the V.P.I. graduates obtained positions of unusual responsibility and honor? Has service rendered by these graduates been hit or miss, or has it been constructive and definite over a long period of time? What has been the percentage of V.P.I. agricultural men who have entered occupations allied to farming? Are there any facts which indicate success n these allied occupations?
Such questions as the above, and others, are answered in this thesis.
In attempting to collect the information mentioned above the author has made use of the Alumni Office files; the records in offices of the various supervisors of Agricultural Education - Dr. W.S. Newman, State Board of Education, Richmond, Va.; Mr. D.J. Howard, Assistant State Supervisor, Winchester, Va.; Mr. T.V. Downing, District Supervisor, Ivor, Va.; Mr. J.O. Hoge, District Supervisor, Blacksburg, Va.; Mr. F.B. Cale, District Supervisor, Appomattox, Va.; department files; Alumni files; Registrar's office; Cormier's thesis and questionnaires.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to these men as well as to Professors E.C. Magill, H.C. Groseclose, H.W. Sanders, and other school officials who have rendered valuable assistance in the arduous task of preparing this thesis. / Master of Science
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公共行政的黑堡觀點及其認識論之研究 / The Study in Blacksburg Perspective and It's Epistemology of Public Administration許立一, Li-Yi Hsu Unknown Date (has links)
公共行政在治理過程(process of governance)中應該居於何種地位與扮演什麼角色?其是否完全與政治無關,而且不負任何社會公義之價值議題的倡導責任?它應該如同市場取向的行政學者所言——追求小政府(minimal government),還是應該竭盡所能地回應社會的需求?公共行政人員應該著重專業技術,還是倫理思考?一九八○年代初期,六位美國維吉尼亞多元理工學院暨州立大學(Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)的學者,有感於當時的行政學術之發展似乎無法釐清前述的課題,而新公共行政(New Public Administration)的主張並未能在實務上發揮作用,又鑑於當時一股貶責官僚(bureaucracy bashing)之風盛行。是以,他(她)們撰寫了一篇名為〈公共行政與治理過程:轉變政治對話〉(Public Administration and the Governance Process: Shifting the Political Dialogue)的文章。因為維吉尼亞州立大學的所在地名為黑堡,故該文亦被學者簡稱為黑堡宣言(Blacksburg Manifesto)。黑堡宣言試圖針對前述課題,提出一些規範性的主張,俾以解決當代公共行政所遭遇的學術與實務的雙重困境。該宣言認為重建公共行政在治理過程中的正當性,乃是化解危機的核心。
本論文研究的範圍不限於黑堡宣言一文,而是該宣言首席撰寫者Gary L. Wamsley所稱之黑堡觀點(Blacksburg Perspective)。所謂黑堡觀點,乃是以黑堡宣言為主軸,所發展出來的一系列的論述(discourse)。換言之,就是在黑堡宣言提出重建公共行政(refounding public administration)之主張後,陸續衍生的一些相關研究以及其中所提出的觀念。本論文希望探究:黑堡觀點針對上述課題所提供的論述為何?進而藉由認識論(epistemology)的分析,瞭解它立於何種哲學基礎之上,俾以達成所宣稱的境界?同時,也希望能夠檢視黑堡觀點本身的限制所在,提供後續相關研究的思考線索。最後,作者更嘗試提出一些補充性的見解,希望能在學術上有所貢獻。
基於上述的研究動機和目的,本論文的各章的鋪陳內容如下:
第一章緒論,說明本論文的研究動機與目的、基本概念界定、研究主題以及方法;
第二章黑堡觀點的內涵,將探討黑堡觀點在美國行政學術中的定位及其思想淵源,並還原黑堡宣言一文的重要主張,進而以黑堡觀點反思傳統的行政理論和新公共管理;
第三章黑堡觀點的認識論之分析,則分別探討其所蘊含的結構主義與後結構主義之色彩,進而提出前述兩種思維是否能夠共存的見解;
第四章民主行政的實踐,則是根據第二、三章的論述為基礎,進一步耙梳黑堡觀點之下的民主行政之內涵,包括公共行政參與治理的正當性、公共利益、公共對話、公民意識、公共行政人員等課題;
第五章結論,以前述的民主行政之實踐意涵,歸納黑堡點的特色及其在公共行政理念上的影響,並指出其理論的內在弔詭。然後,對照我國行政實務,試舉例說明黑堡觀點的啟發。最後,指出本論文的研究限制以及作者對後續研究的建議。
本論文的特色在於,超越相關的研究,針對黑堡觀點的認識論進行分析,此實為一種開創性的研究。抑有進者,作者認為本論文應能夠產生如后的貢獻:
第一,提供不同於時下流行之管理途徑的觀點,刺激學界思索其它的研究途徑;
第二,為後續有興趣於此一途徑的研究者,奠定初步的基礎,至少本論文在理論耙梳和認識論的分析方面,應該有所助益;
第三,作者提出對於黑堡觀點之內在弔詭的反省,以及從實務的角度思考黑堡觀點的實踐意涵,希望能夠做為後續研究的線索和方向。
第一章 緒 論••••••••••••••••••••••••1
第一節 研究動機•••••••••••••••••1
第二節 研究目的•••••••••••••••••3
第三節 基本概念的界定••••••••••••••4
第四節 研究主題與方法••••••••••••••16
第二章 黑堡觀點的內涵••••••••••••••••••23
第一節 黑堡觀點的興起及其與新公共行政的關係•••25
第二節 黑堡宣言的主張••••••••••••••44
第三節 以黑堡觀點反思傳統的行政理論•••••••61
第四節 以黑堡觀點反思新公共管理•••••••••83
第三章 黑堡觀點的認識論之分析••••••••••••117
第一節 黑堡觀點的結構主義色彩••••••••••118
第二節 黑堡觀點的後結構主義傾向•••••••••151
第三節 結構主義與後結構主義的共容性之探討••••187
第四章 黑堡觀點之民主行政的實踐••••••••••••197
第一節 公共行政參與治理的正當性•••••••••198
第二節 公共利益•••••••••••••••••218
第三節 公共對話•••••••••••••••••251
第四節 公民意識•••••••••••••••••275
第五節 公共行政人員•••••••••••••••293
第五章 結 論•••••••••••••••••••••••317
第一節 黑堡觀點的特色及其影響••••••••••317
第二節 黑堡觀點的內在弔詭與限制•••••••••326
第三節 黑堡觀點對我國行政實務的啟發•••••••334
第四節 本論文的研究限制與對後續研究的建議••••355
參考資料••••••••••••••••••••••••••361 / This thesis concerned about the legitimacy of public administration in the process of governance. Since administrative management and behavioralism rise the efficiency became the subject matter in public administration. However, Blacksburg Manifesto reminds us the public administration can not be equal with management and efficiency are not public administration's only value. So, the author of this thesis is interested in Blacksburg Perspective's refounding public administration.
This study includes Blacksburg Perspective's discourse about public administration and these discourses' epistemology. Firstly, the author summarizes Blacksburg Manifesto and induces characters of the Manifesto. Secondly, he criticizes traditional public management and new public management bases on the Blacksburg Perspective. Thirdly, to analyze the epistemology of Blacksburg Perspective includes structuralism and poststructuralism. Fourthly, this study introduces the implications of democratic public administration of Blacksburg Perspective. Fifthly, the author bases on Blacksburg Perspective rethink administrative practice in his country. Finally, to examine theoretical paradoxes of Blacksburg Perspective.
The Author hopes this study is helpful for students are interested in this relative field about democratic public administration and by this thesis we can think about how to refound the legitimacy of public administration in process of governance.
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The inherent betweenDoherty, Joyce January 1994 (has links)
This thesis is an exploration of objects and their ability to create a between. Objects are the principal focus of this thesis. Objects arise from a desire to express the richness of three dimensions.
Betweens evolve from the relationship between objects. The between is a thing, just as clearly as the object is a thing. It is a hallway, a door or a room. Knowing that a between needs to accommodate a particular function can help shape the relationship of the objects, but does not shape the objects themselves.
This thesis is studied in a proposal for the area surrounding Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture, Cowgill Hall. The proposal consists of four primary objects; a series of three classrooms, a new entrance into Cowgill, a gallery above and below Cowgill Plaza, and a stair which extends the Plaza down to the level of Cowgill’s first floor. / Master of Architecture
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"An act of making form"Light, Barry Hill January 1992 (has links)
This thesis is my commitment to this medium of social and personal expression. lt is also, the development of a foundation from which my search for truth, understanding and architecture can continue through time.
The study vehicle is the design of an addition to Cowgill Hall, the College of Architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
The primary determinants which contribute to the addition's form are derived from site, structure and institution.
The solution, an infill language of columns, beams and gravity walls, is ordered by interpreting these ideas into architectural elements that express an open and harmonious environment that encourages the creative spirit to flourish. / Master of Architecture
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