YKY is an eclectic mix of long-proven pedagogical models and from newer theories and practices with a learning focus:

•  Montessori and Waldorf schools;

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

•  Summerhill and Sudbury Valley democratic schools;

•  Paths Learning Space - a Bulgarian democratic school;

•  MOOC - massive open online courses;

•  The 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.