Researching 'good practice' in teaching & learning for your dissertation?

Here are some links to some useful starting points for your literature review, arranged by theme (but in no particular order):

English as an additional language/bilingual learners:

https://www.nfer.ac.uk/publications/ABL01  

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267337281_'Good_practice'_for_pupils_with_English_as_an_additional_language_patterns_in_student_teachers'_thinking

Second language teaching:
The Journal of Second Language Teaching and Research is an open-access journal available here: http://pops.uclan.ac.uk/index.php/jsltr/index.

Autistic spectrum disorder:

http://www.thepdaresource.com/files/sen-autistic-spectrum-schools-2010.pdf

Talk and literacy:

https://www.nfer.ac.uk/publications/EFTR04

Music and cognition:

http://library.wcsu.edu/dspace/bitstream/0/456/1/harmon.pdf

Play:

http://www.importanceofplay.eu/IMG/pdf/dr_david_whitebread_-_the_importance_of_play.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/444147/Teaching-and-play-in-the-early-years-a-balancing-act.pdf

Early Years, challenging gender stereotypes: http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/policy-research/challenging-gender-stereotypes-in-early-years/ 

Ethnicity and educational attainment:
http://www.ethnicity.ac.uk/medialibrary/briefingsupdated/how-are-ethnic-inequalities-in-education-changing.pdf

http://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/Parliamentary%20briefings/EducationWHdebateJune2012.pdf

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151715/http://www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/RTP01-03MIG1734.pdf

Creativity/the arts:

https://www.nfer.ac.uk/publications/44420/44420.pdf

Grouping pupils by ability:

http://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/DEVELOPING_TEACHERS-FINAL.pdf (see page 6, for example)

Learning styles:

http://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/DEVELOPING_TEACHERS-FINAL.pdf (see page 6, for example)

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/PSPI_9_3.pdf

Early years/KS1 transition:

https://www.nfer.ac.uk/publications/FKT02/FKT02.pdf

Developing communication skills/pupils with SEN:

http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/6059/1/RR516.pdf

Links between prisons and universities:

https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/sites/crimeandjustice.org.uk/files/PSJ%20225%20May%202016.pdf