RT Journal Article T1 Citizenship and Pluriculturalism Approaches of Teachers in the Hispanic and Japanese Contexts: Higher Education Research A1 Delgado Algarra, Emilio José A1 Aguaded, José Ignacio A1 Bernal Bravo, César A1 Lorca Marín, Antonio Alejandro AB Current higher education policies include several challenges, such as the academicinternationalization of universities, mobility, and cultural plurality. Beyond the o cial curriculum,university educators have conceptions of citizenship and pluricultural competence. To understandthe conceptions of educators on both topics in the Hispanic and Japanese contexts of higher education,this article presents a quantitative study involving a collaboration between a sample of education andsocial sciences teaching sta from universities in Spain and Japan. The CYASPS® (Citizenship andPlurilingual Social Actors in Higher Education) instrument and a categories system were designedfor data collection and analysis with the support of SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences)software. Using a comparative approach, this study investigated the teaching sta s’ conceptionsabout citizenship and pluricultural teaching–learning environments, which focused on their viewsregarding di erent kinds of citizenship, citizens’ participation, and sources for the developmentof pluricultural competences. Based on a descriptive and factorial analysis, there were significantcorrelations between citizenship and pluricultural competence, with relevant connections betweenkey aspects of pluricultural competence, including awareness of the rights from the liberal citizenshipmodel, civic commitment of the republican citizenship model, and several elements of cosmopolitanand radical citizenship. PB MDPI SN 2071-1050 YR 2020 FD 2020-04 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/17889 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/17889 LA eng NO Delgado Algarra, E. J., Aguaded Gómez, I., Bernal Bravo, C., Lorca Marín, A. A. (2020). Citizenship and Pluriculturalism Approaches of Teachers in the Hispanic and Japanese Contexts: Higher Education Research. Sustainability, 12(8), 3109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12083109 NO In this research, the configuration of the citizenship specific category and analysis weresupported by the EPITEC R+D Project (2016–2020), EDU2015–67953–P, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economyand Competitiveness. This research is an activity of COIDESO (Center for Research in Contemporary Thoughtand Innovation for Social Development) and RED14 (Research Network in Social Sciences Teaching) DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva RD 30 may 2026