YKY is an eclectic mix of long-established pedagogical models and newer theories and practices focused on learning:

•  Montessori and Waldorf schools;

•  Suggestopedia, the related ideas/hypothesis of the linguist Stephen Krashen and the self-learning practice of polyglot Steven Kaufmann;

•  Summerhill and Sudbury Valley democratic schools;

•  Paths Learning Space - a Bulgarian democratic school;

•  MOOC - massive open online courses;

•  Educational IT experiments of Sugata Mitra;

•  Career guidance - some ideas and practices;

•  John Holt and his How Children Learn book;

•  Theories and models of cognition and learning: Situated learning;  Cognition - Distributed Cognition , Embodied Cognition and Extended Cognition; Social Learning Co-Learning - Collaborative one and Cooperative one ; Appreciated Inquiry; etc.