In this chapter, Virta discusses the challenges history teachers can
experience in their classrooms when trying to pay attention to the
variety of historical cultures that students encounter outside of
school, related to both collective memory and multiple forms of
historical entertainment. The relationship between historical cultures
and history education is far from simple since historical culture is not
unified. Minority adolescents do not necessarily espouse mainstream
historical culture, but they might not share the historical cultures of
their families or communities either. The main conclusion of this
discussion is the necessity of training in historical literacy in order
to enable students to cope with the variety of versions and forms in
which they encounter historical information or disinformation.