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In the 1970s and 80s there were a few educators in the United States who advanced the idea that teaching should be considered as a performing art.104 This connection between teaching and performance which was already present in the Kunsterziehungsbewegung as well as in Eisner’s more general considerations of teaching as an art, became a central focus in the thinking of Jacqueline Dillon, Robert Travers, Louis J. Rubin, W.M. Timpson, D.N. Tobin and Elyse Lamm Pineau. Pineau’s later article Teaching is Performance: Reconceptualizing a Problematic Metaphor (1994) offered a far-ranging perspective on the possibilities of connecting future educational research with performance research. More recently, the most prominent educator who has explored this idea is undoubtedly Seymour Sarason whose book Teaching as a Performing Art (1999) has probably become the most widely known in this regard. Since then, there has also been a further growth of interest in this idea, reflected in both published works as well as in a few university training programs based on the development of these connections.105