The educational booklet is both for students and teachers and aims to help students to develop historical consciousness and understanding through introducing concepts like historical change, continuity and diversity while leading them to think about the Ottoman Period in Cyprus. The book has been created to be used in history classes, taking into consideration existing history teaching curricula in Cyprus. This sequence of lessons was designed to build on students’ existing understanding of the Ottoman period in Cyprus. It was assumed that students would already possess at least an outline narrative of the period, perhaps focusing on political, administrative or military events. The lesson sequence helps students both to recall and to consolidate that familiar knowledge and then to think about the many other ways in which it might be possible to construct and convey knowledge of the period. The sequence therefore focuses on the many different possible histories that could capture and convey the experiences, developments or significance of the period, those focusing on everyday life or encounters between peoples, those drawing upon contrasting types of sources, including the physical heritage of buildings, and those which try to capture patterns of similarity and difference, change and continuity in human experiences (Bradshaw 2009; Counsell 2011). Moreover, throughout the lesson sequence, students will examine what experiences people held in common in Cyprus as well as issues that might have divided them. These experiences range from acute difficulties and challenges, to cultural and technological achievements.
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