Study paper from 1998 in the field of Education - Reform Pedagogy, grade: none, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover, course: Introduction to Freinet Pedagogy, language: German. Abstract: In my presentation, I would like to examine what Célestin Freinet's opinion on textbooks actually was. Furthermore, I want to exemplarily investigate contemporary textbooks to see if and to what extent the principles of Freinet pedagogy can be found in them. As examples, I will choose the following two textbooks (both for 5th grade): 1.) "Startklar 5 - fit in Wort und Schrift" by Herbert Allerheiligen et al. 1996 2.) "Mittendrin 5 - Sprachbuch" by Werner Broders et al. 1995.