ABSTRACT
Developmental processes that have affected higher education over the period of several decades, primarily in the United States and in Europe, but also in other parts of the world, brought about changes which resulted in the transformation of higher education from elite to mass higher education. This chapter reviews an assumption that increased access to higher education, one of the resulting consequences of the massification process, has created major, educational inequalities worldwide. Most importantly, however, "massification" of higher education has had a detrimental effect on students with special needs, especially students with disabilities. The chapter describes a view of pedagogy as "a living, breathing text of experience that allows the narration of pedagogical stories to take any turn and possess any value as long as they are the turns and values of the pedagogical narrators". It also explores the uses of performative writing/audiencing. The relationship(s) between the audience(s) and the performers have often been dealt with regard to theatrical performances.
