Improvising Inclusion: Jazz Methods for Transnational Challenge-Based Learning

This Lightning Talk addresses key challenges in higher education, including sustaining attention, fostering active listening, and enabling meaningful collaboration in culturally diverse, transnational classrooms. Drawing on experience in teaching Private International Law, it highlights common issues such as passive participation, limited engagement, and divides between local and international students. The session introduces jazz improvisation as a pedagogical method—emphasising active listening, structured freedom, and responsiveness—to support co-creation under uncertainty. It demonstrates how this approach can strengthen attentiveness, adaptability, intercultural communication, and collaborative problem-solving, while fostering partnerships between academia and cultural institutions.