Department of Anthropology and Sociology

Yueh-Chou Ho

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Roles: Department of Anthropology and Sociology PhD researcher
Department: Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Qualifications: MRes in Social Anthropology (SOAS, University of London), MSocSc in Ethnicity and Culture (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), BA in Humanities and Social Sciences (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Email address: 693655@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title: Educating an indigenous person by Indigenous Curricula and Family: The Reproduction of the Indigeneity in Atayal Villages
Internal Supervisors: Dr Naomi Leite

Biography

Yueh-Chou Ho, also known as Tuyuq Rabay (he/him), is a member of the Truku Indigenous community in Taiwan.

He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, supported by the Taiwan Ministry of Education’s Taiwan Scholarship for Indigenous Cultural Heritage. Prior to joining SOAS, Tuyuq worked as a research assistant at the Indigenous Curriculum Department Centre at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.

Between 2019 and 2021, he collaborated with Indigenous public-funded primary schools—particularly Atayal schools—on the development of culturally grounded curricula aimed at preserving and promoting Indigenous heritage. This experience inspired his doctoral research, which explores how Atayal schoolchildren become "educated Indigenous persons" through diverse curricula and learning environments within their villages. From 2023 to 2024, Tuyuq conducted fieldwork in Atayal Experimental Schools, engaging in school ethnography and working closely with Atayal parents, teachers, elders, and afterschool tutors.

As a Truku person with a deep personal connection to his cultural heritage, Tuyuq’s research adopts an ethnographic, reflective, and decolonial approach to examine Indigenous education within the broader context of multiculturalism and settler colonialism in Taiwan.