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The main purpose with this study is to describe teachers? use of textbooks and other teaching materials in upper secondary school (gymnasiet) in Sweden, and to discuss the use according to school subject and teacher style. Data was collected in two different ways. At first twenty classroom observations were made during lectures concerning the subjects Swedish (mothertounge), English (foreign language) and religion. Then four open interviews were carried out with the teaching teachers. The analysis was made using qualitative methods and with a perspective of didactics.The results show that textbooks are not as dominating in the classroom as recent studies have proposed. Instead we can see a varied and flexible use of different educational materials, where teachers consciously and independently choose both which media to use and how to use it. Their aim is to shape a curriculum which helps the students learn, but it is seldom explicitly formulated by the teachers. That is among other things discussed in this study, together with the result that school subjects affect the use of teaching material more than teaching styles do.