OakEdu follows some ideas of:

Comer curriculum:
- human developmental pathways are the physical, psychological, language, social, ethical and cognitive pathways.
See this Florida school about and founding assumptions.

Foxfire curriculum (Dewey1933):
- human mind is a meaning-making organ, relentlessly driven to make sense of its world.
- learning is posing and solving problems, producing products and building understandings.
- learners must stand apart from their work to reflect consciously on what they have learned and how they have learned it.
- develop a lively interest in the world, openness to experience, desire to learn in every situation.
- think critically.

Bruner (, J. (1966). Toward a Theory of Instruction. Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press.) has also a constructivist theory: four major aspects: (1) predisposition towards learning, (2) the ways in which a body of knowledge can be structured so that it can be most readily grasped by the learner, (3) the most effective sequences in which to present material, and (4) the nature and pacing of rewards and punishments.

Reigeluth (,C.M. 1996) advise instructing from the simplest to the most complex, with frequent call back to all versions taught so far (synthesis).

Wertheimer (Gestalt theory) explains the cognitive learning process follows some rules: (1) proximity - elements tend to be grouped together according to their nearness, (2) similarity - items similar in some respect tend to be grouped together, (3) closure - items are grouped together if they tend to complete some entity, and (4) simplicity - items will be organized into simple figures according to symmetry, regularity, and smoothness.