Maria Gaiyabu is a Nauruan educator, writer, and politician. She served as Nauru's Secretary of Education.[1] She is the first educator from Nauru to earn a doctorate.[2]
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She earned a master's degree in elementary education in 1996 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with the thesis Elementary Schooling Practices, Post-Colonial Politics and the Struggle of Identity in Nauru.[3] She graduated with a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2007 with the dissertation Ekereri in the lives of teachers, parents and pupils: A path to school effectiveness and improvement in Nauru.[4]
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edit- ^ Flores, Evelyn; Kihleng, Emelihter, eds. (2019). "About the Contributors". Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia. University of Hawai'i Press. pp. 347–358. doi:10.1515/9780824877385-127. ISBN 978-0-8248-7738-5. JSTOR j.ctv7r43c9.129.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ Burnett, Greg; Suluma, Wili (August 2024). "Formal education in Nauru: A Pacific development assistance story". Asia Pacific Viewpoint. 65 (2): 276–287. doi:10.1111/apv.12403.
- ^ Gaiyabu, Maria (1996). Elementary Schooling Practices, Post-Colonial Politics and the Struggle of Identity in Nauru (Thesis). ProQuest 2503453604.[non-primary source needed]
- ^ Gaiyabu, Maria (20 November 2007). Ekereri in the lives of teachers, parents and pupils: a path to school effectiveness and improvement in Nauru (Thesis).[non-primary source needed]