METAPHORS OF COMMUNITY OF INQUIRY IN FLIPPED LEARNING. MIXED-METHOD EXPLORATION TO UNVEIL STUDENT PERSPECTIVES AND NAVIGATE INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The contribution returns some outcomes of a university teaching experimenta-tion inspired by the methodological approach of the flipped learning, declined in the form of mastery learning conceived by Bloom (1973). The research on this project has adopted the epistemological paradigm of the Community of Inquiry (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2001), in this mix-method study integrated with the powerful of metaphors of education conceived by the students. The analy-sis of the metaphors, based on a classification process, contributes to explain the results obtained in previous studies (Coco, Strongoli & Pillera, 2022; Stron-goli & Pillera, 2022) and to unveil the complexity of students’ views on the uni-versity teaching innovation.