The determination of the research object of foreign educational history involves the division of the boundaries of related disciplines. Every discipline has its own special research object, which is the internal basis for it to become a discipline. First of all, the scientific basis for defining the research object of foreign educational history should be the research object of educational discipline. It should include the knowledge system generated by the research defined as the object of educational discipline. Secondly, because it also belongs to the category of historiography, it also studies the problem from a specific historical perspective. Pedagogy, as a discipline, should study human educational phenomena and problems, and foreign educational history should examine these phenomena and problems from a historical perspective. According to the above viewpoints, it can be considered that the history of foreign education is a branch and basic discipline of educational science, which together with the history of education in China constitutes the discipline of educational history. The history of education has the interdisciplinary nature of pedagogy and history. This book is an excellent teaching material for teacher education. The book is divided into 18 chapters, including the history of ancient education, modern education and modern education. It mainly introduces education in prehistoric times, education in ancient Greece, education in medieval western Europe, education in Byzantium and Arabia, education in Renaissance and Reformation, modern education theory, modern western education theory, Soviet education thought, modern European and American education thought, etc. '