The definition of an exemplar is person or thing that is considered as a pattern to be copied. An example of an exemplar is a person that others try to imitate, such as Michael Jackson. An example of an exemplar is a copy of a manuscript.
A stakeholder in education is anyone who has an interest in the success of a school or school system. They are the parties that are either directly or indirectly affected by the success of an education system.
A stakeholder or stakeholders, as defined in its first usage in a 1963 internal memorandum at the Stanford Research Institute, are those groups without whose support the organization would cease to exist.. The theory was later developed and championed by R. Edward Freeman in the 1980s.