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All rights reserved. Thus it ignores the critical issues of culture, power and forms of discourse which create the learning environment in the classroom. The ultimate goal, for the Piagetian constructivist, is a child's ability to think autonomously, conducting cognitive processes internally. O'Loughlin and others fault this approach for effectively disempowering the learner, and making education a process of adapting to reality rather than transforming it. Drawing on work by African American researcher Lisa Delpit, O'Loughlin finds there are often power relationships effectively disguised or hidden within student centered pedagogies.