According to Hall's classification, comparative education mainly includes four fields: comparative study, foreign education, international education and development education, in which comparative study includes two sub-fields: comparative teaching method, internal analysis of education and internal analysis of culture, while international education also includes two sub-fields: work research of international educational institutions and international teaching method.

Comparative pedagogy can also be called comparative pedagogy, which is called e education compare in French and vergleichende Erziehung in German. It is a research field of pedagogy.

Through the comparative study of education in various countries, we can broaden our horizons, increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding of our own education system and education. Through the comparative study of education in various countries, we can learn the successful experience and failure lessons of foreign education, provide reference for our educational reform, and provide basis and reference for our educational decision-making and educational reform.

By comparing and analyzing the educational phenomena in different social, political, economic and cultural environments, we can imitate the most basic decisive factors in the rapid educational phenomena, and will not show fundamental differences due to different external environments, thus revealing the qualitative stipulation of education behind the educational phenomena, that is, understanding the essence of education.

Characteristics of comparative education:

(1) Transnational and international.

(2) Mainly adopt comparative research methods.

(3) Its research object covers the whole educational field, including both theoretical research and applied research.

(4) the times.

(5) Nationality and internationality coexist.